From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:44:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Mention libffi dependency in `README'.
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Mention libffi dependency in `README'.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index ea680818c..90914e1c2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Guile depends on the following external libraries.
 - libltdl
 - libunistring
 - libgc
+- libffi
 It will also use the libreadline library if it is available.  For each
 of these there is a corresponding --with-XXX-prefix option that you
 can use when invoking ./configure, if you have these libraries
@@ -91,6 +92,12 @@ Guile requires the following external packages:
     conservative garbage collector used by Guile.  It is available
     from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ .
 
+  - libffi
+
+    libffi provides a "foreign function interface", used by the
+    `(system foreign)' module.  It is available from
+    http://sourceware.org/libffi/ .
+
   - pkg-config
 
     Guile's ./configure script uses pkg-config to discover the correct