Re: [Pyobjc-dev] CVS build failing

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 01:08 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Ronald_Oussoren wrote:
>
>> Your using an older snapshot of libffi. The snapshot that is
>> currently on SF should work.
>
> Does libffi contain a version macro we could check? Remember I had a
> libffi which mostly worked but caused an extremely hard to find bug...

Not AFAIK, and a quick check of the header-files didn't find such a 
macro either. Even if they did we probably wouldn't be able to use it 
anyway: We're using an unreleased CVS version, which means both the 
non-working version and the working version would contain the same 
version macro's.

Luckily things are not as bad as it looks: If the CVS version of PyObjC 
links without errors you have the right version of libffi, otherwise 
you don't. This heuristic breaks down when we add GNUstep support 
and/or need to move to a newer version of libffi.

Ronald