Bug 103976

Summary: Gforth as bad as always
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan>
Component: DevelopmentAssignee: Philipp Thomas <pth>
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
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Description Bernd Paysan 2005-08-10 20:48:43 UTC 
Gforth is compiled without libffi, rendering the foreign function call  
interface useless. libffi has been part of GCC since 3.4.0, and clearly part 
of 4.0.0, so what's up?
Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2005-08-11 08:47:06 UTC 
Stupid.
Comment 2 Bernd Paysan 2005-08-11 09:24:12 UTC 
May sound stupid, but as the project leader of Gforth, I'm annoyed with the 
quality of SuSE's Gforth build. Gforth relies on libffi to call C libraries, 
without this feature, it's just a toy, not integrating well into Linux. 
 
Therefore, please be kind to either fix the problem, or remove this crap 
complilation of Gforth from SuSE Linux - our users have to reinstall Gforth 
from sources, anyway. 
 
Well, for SuSE 10.1, I can fix it myself, but as long as you call a bug report 
from the originator of the software "stupid", what should I care about the 
quality of your product?
Comment 3 Andreas Schwab 2005-08-11 09:51:01 UTC 
You'll get a better chance of getting it fixed if you don't write crappy bug 
reports.
Comment 4 Bernd Paysan 2005-08-11 11:07:05 UTC 
Ok, here's a less crappy bug report: 
 
The INSTALL file of Gforth 0.6.2 (out for more than two years) tells you: 
 
---------- 
                Prerequisites 
 
You need gcc version 2.0 or later to compile gforth.  Recommended: 
gcc-2.95.* (other versions produce slower code). 
 
To use the new C interface, you need to install the ffcall libraries 
before configuring Gforth.  You can find them on 
 
   ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gnu/ffcall-1.8.tar.gz (USA)  
   ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/ffcall-1.8.tar.gz (Europe)  
---------- 
 
SuSE never came with ffcall-1.8, so Gforth didn't link to it. Neither had SuSE 
the GCC-3.4.x/4.x libffi, the successor of the ffcall libffi. Unfortunately, 
the libffi 2.0 that ships with GCC 4.0.2 is not 100% compatible with the old 
one (that's why the configure process doesn't work out to use it).
Comment 5 Andreas Kleen 2005-10-10 12:32:21 UTC 
How about you fix the configure process to work correctly with gcc's version?
Then next time gforth is updated it will do the right thing.
Comment 7 Philipp Thomas 2010-08-06 15:33:25 UTC 
Long dead.