[cl-debian] Bug#385490: [wishlist] FFI module should be made to work on more architectures

[Robin]

Package: clisp
Version: 1:2.33.2-10

The FFI module is no longer being built on a wide number of architectures;
for some architectures this is a regression. The mcvs package actually
relies on the FFI module and consequently fails to build from source on all
of these platforms.

As per earlier conversations with the clisp maintainer, we have decided to
file a wishlist bug against clisp to capture the request for FFI. It is
understood that not all architectures are as widely-used as before anymore
and it may be hard to get the brainpower together to take a look at some of
these architectures and do the work necessary to make FFI buildable and
working again.

The architectures were FFI built before but where it is no longer working
are: ia64, mipsel, s390 and sparc.

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