Build from source distribution fails on Ubuntu 24.10 #218
Description
As noted in #144, the static libffi.a is not built with -fPIC so it cannot be linked into a dynamic library. -fPIC introduces runtime linking overhead which is generally to be avoided if not needed.
Amending the configure command to:
../configure --with-libffi --disable-staticffi
allows the package to be built and tested successfully.
Amending the make install command to:
sudo make install
allows the package to be installed in the standard location.
There is some mention of libffi requiring static linking at places in the configure, but I couldn't figure out what the issue was.