@@ -15,15 +15,52 @@
                (a reentrant combination of vacall and trampoline)
 
 
 Installation instructions:
 
-        ./configure
+        mkdir make
+        cd make
+        ./configure --cache-file=config.cache
         make
         make check
         make install
 
+
+Note: passind --enable-shared to ./configure has no effect because
+it makes no sense to do so:
+
+1) It is an overkill: libavcall, libvacall, libcallback have less than 1 KB
+   of executable code (most of the real code is in the header files):
+
+$ size libavcall.a
+  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
+   420       0       0     420     1a4 avcall.o (ex libavcall.a)
+    81       0       0      81      51 structcpy.o (ex libavcall.a)
+$ size libvacall.a
+  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
+   365       0       0     365     16d vacall.o (ex libvacall.a)
+   203       0       0     203      cb misc.o (ex libvacall.a)
+    81       0       0      81      51 structcpy.o (ex libvacall.a)
+$ size libcallback.a
+  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
+   379       0       0     379     17b vacall.o (ex libcallback.a)
+   203       0       0     203      cb misc.o (ex libcallback.a)
+    81       0       0      81      51 structcpy.o (ex libcallback.a)
+   287       0       0     287     11f trampoline.o (ex libcallback.a)
+
+When a shared library is loaded, you spend at least 4 KB for its code,
+data and BSS. This is overkill for such a tiny library.
+
+2) The main function here is compiled from non-PIC assembly language.
+   I.e. relocations would remain. The GNU linker supports shared libraries
+   with relocations on x86 systems. But only on x86!
+
+3) Dynamic compilation breaks callback/trampoline_r self-tests at least
+   on x86_64-linux (and CLISP FFI too).
+   This is, of course, a bug in libffcall, but, even if it is fixed, it
+   will still make no sense to --enable-shared.
+
 
 Files in this package:
 
     Documentation:
 
@@ -39,11 +76,11 @@
         callback/*      the callback package
 
     Installation:
 
         configure       configuration script
-        configure.in    autoconf-2.10 source for the configuration script
+        configure.in    autoconf-2.60 source for the configuration script
         autoconf/*      auxiliary configuration scripts
         Makefile.in     Makefile master
 
 
 Copyright notice:
@@ -58,11 +95,15 @@
 on this software.
 
 
 Distribution:
 
-http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/ffcall-1.10.tar.gz
-ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gnu/ffcall-1.10.tar.gz
+CVS:
+$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/libffcall co ffcall
+
+Bug reports to:
+
+  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=libffcall
 
 Homepage:
 
-http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-ffcall.html
+  http://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/