<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.kirkby@onetel.net">david.kirkby@onetel.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Is this dynamic foreign function interface needed for Maxima? Would you advise</div>
us to disable this on all platforms, or just OpenSolaris, given we do not have<br>
libffi in Sage?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I frankly do not know. I suspect Maxima just uses standard Common Lisp so you could disable the FFI.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
If you would advise disabling this unless libffi is installed, would it not be<br>
preferable for the default behaviour of whether to install the dffi depends on<br>
whether the relevant library is installed?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, that was supposed to happen at some point, but was in a low priority list. Since it is impeding your builds I will try something tonight.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Juanjo </div></div><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://tream.dreamhosters.com">http://tream.dreamhosters.com</a><br>