disruptive libffi upgrade

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 04/15/2012 12:33 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>> keeping generated files in git is just dumb.
>
> +1, but IMHO this is true even without the "in git" addition. Generated
> files also have no business being in a source tarball,
You guys seem to be unable to comprehend the differences between 
generated sources and generated intermediate files.

> and IMHO the fact
> that the autotools get that wrong entirely disqualifies them from being a
> usable build system.
Please stop this. We all know you have never understood and likely will 
never be able to the autotools.