office-gobmx/external/libffi/README
Michael Stahl 79084665f0 python3: bundle libffi for GNU/Linux builds
CPython commit f40d4ddff3c800b3c956a5e8820aabe3aa87cddd "Closes #27979:
Remove bundled copy of libffi" causes a bit of a problem because it
turns out that libffi isn't all that stable; there's libffi.so.5 on
CentOS 6, libffi.so.6 on CentOS 7 and libffi.so.7 on
lo_daily_update_gandalf tinderbox.

So we have to bundle it in LO; it's only used on GNU/Linux currently.

CPython commit 32119e10b792ad7ee4e5f951a2d89ddbaf111cc5 "bpo-35947:
Update Windows to the current version of libffi (GH-11797)" also removes
the libffi for MSVC, so in a future python upgrade we will have to build
libffi for MSVC too.

The libffi fork for MacOSX is still in CPython git master.

(regression from b10be5d484)

Change-Id: Ibc20cf8cd3614cf9941b6970662bd930496776b2
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/86493
Tested-by: Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Michael Stahl <michael.stahl@cib.de>
2020-01-09 17:56:19 +01:00

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libffi is required to build CPython's ctypes module
https://sourceware.org/libffi/