Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Libffi and install-sh & friends are "identifiable sections", "not derived from the Program" ('the Program' meaning any work available only under the GPL), "can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves", and so they can be distributed as separate works.
OK.
Try this. mkdir build cd build ../gcc-3.3.2/libffi/configure make
OK. This works. :-) It would be a good idea to put a little note about it in the libffi directory. It is not obvious to a newby to know that this unusual build mechanism does not only apply to gcc itself (documented in gcc-3.2.2/INSTALL/). You may close this bug. Thanks a lot for answering my questions and concerns. Etienne PS: I might still file a different bug about the source package; it is not very convenient to have to download all of GCC's sources (megabytes and megabytes of data) just for looking at libbffi's sources (few kilobytes). -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info.uqam.ca/~egagnon/ SableVM: http://www.sablevm.org/ SableCC: http://www.sablecc.org/