From: jh+ruby-lang@...
Date: 2008-11-03T20:38:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FFI 0.1.1 (Foreign Function Interface) for Ruby 1.8.6/7 and 1.9

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 05:01:11 -0500, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

>I'm not sure if linux-ppc support is not provided because it's not 
>supported or because nobody has a linux-ppc machine to build on. The 
>latter has been the case for several entries on the list; I myself was 
>the build monkey for Solaris/AMD64 and Linux/AMD64 for a short time, 
>before which there was no shipped support.
>
>There's certainly one way to find out...gem install ffi. Report back 
>here or on ruby-ffi mailing lists what you learn :)

Ubuntu 8.10 provides libffi on ppc. The gem builds, but a simple ruby
program hangs (rather uses 100% CPU). 

I can investigate further (e.g building my own libffi), but that may
not happen immediately.

-jh