[racket-dev] when libffi is already installed

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue Apr 12 07:32:55 EDT 2011

Two days ago, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> As of the latest in the git repo, when libffi is installed
> (including header files), then `configure' detects it and uses it,
> instead of building the copy of libffi that is included with the
> Racket sources.

Does anyone see any problem with adding `--disable-libffi' to the
nightly build, to avoid making the distribution installers depend on
an installed libffi?

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