./devel/libffi, Foreign function interface

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Branch: pkgsrc-2012Q3, Version: 3.0.11, Package name: libffi-3.0.11, Maintainer: asau

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.

Some programs may not know at the time of compilation what arguments
are to be passed to a function. For instance, an interpreter may be
told at run-time about the number and types of arguments used to call
a given function. Libffi can be used in such programs to provide a
bridge from the interpreter program to compiled code.

Ffi stands for Foreign Function Interface. A foreign function
interface is the popular name for the interface that allows code
written in one language to call code written in another language. The
libffi library really only provides the lowest, machine dependent
layer of a fully featured foreign function interface. A layer must
exist above libffi that handles type conversions for values passed
between the two languages.


Required to build:
[devel/libtool-base] [devel/pkg-config]

Master sites:

SHA1: bff6a6c886f90ad5e30dee0b46676e8e0297d81d
RMD160: 2495e499b63bed7e334ea15979f2eb24ed12ef9a
Filesize: 775.605 KB

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   2012-11-15 16:50:10 by Matthias Scheler | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
Pullup ticket #3969 - requested by he
devel/libffi: build fix

Revisions pulled up:
- devel/libffi/distinfo                                         1.23
- devel/libffi/patches/patch-ak                                 1.1

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   Module Name:	pkgsrc
   Committed By:	jmmv
   Date:		Tue Oct  9 01:07:56 UTC 2012

   Modified Files:
   	pkgsrc/devel/libffi: distinfo
   Added Files:
   	pkgsrc/devel/libffi/patches: patch-ak

   Log message:
   Fix build under NetBSD/macppc.