Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.6

Chapter 9. General Libraries

libffi-3.1

Introduction to libffi

The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any function specified by a call interface description at run time.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (FTP): ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-3.1.tar.gz

  • Download MD5 sum: f5898b29bbfd70502831a212d9249d10

  • Download size: 916 KB

  • Estimated disk space required: 6.5 MB (additional 1.7 MB for the tests)

  • Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (additional 0.6 SBU for the tests)

libffi Dependencies

Optional

DejaGnu-1.5.1 (required to run the testsuite)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libffi

Installation of libffi

Install libffi by running the following commands: 

sed -e '/^includesdir/ s:$(libdir)/@PACKAGE_NAME@-@PACKAGE_VERSION@/include:$(includedir):' \
    -i include/Makefile.in &&
sed -e '/^includedir/ s:${libdir}/@PACKAGE_NAME@-@PACKAGE_VERSION@/include:@includedir@:' \
    -e 's/^Cflags: -I${includedir}/Cflags:/' \
    -i libffi.pc.in        &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

sed ... include/Makefile.in and sed ... libffi.pc.in: Make package install headers into /usr/include instead of /usr/lib/libffi-3.1/include.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libffi.so
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libffi.so

contains the libffi API functions.

Last updated on 2014-09-09 12:00:35 -0700