From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
To: libffi-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: souurce for old version of libffi
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <508E68C0.8080804@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508E589C.20804@redhat.com>
On 29/10/12 12:21, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 12:50 AM, tim.beech wrote:
>> I'm packaging GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) for Salix, a Slackware
>> derivative, and it depends on old versions of libgmp and libffi.
>>
>> Specificaly, it is looking for /usr/lib/libffi.so.3
>> and finding libffi.so.6
>>
>> These numbers don't seem to correspond to the version numbers for
>> libffi; as far as I know, the latest libffi for Slackware is
>> libffi-3.something.
>>
>> I've searched without success. I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could
>> point me in the direction of a tarball.
>
> Please, don't do this. Let's fix GHC. I may be able to help.
>
> Andrew.
>
>
I believe this is the link you are looking for:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5743
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411925 (downstream bug linking to
the above bug)
The problem was that the bundled libffi conflicted with the system
libffi, as in, both got picked up one way or another
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-29 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-27 23:50 tim.beech
2012-10-28 13:31 ` Tim Beech
2012-10-29 10:21 ` Andrew Haley
2012-10-29 11:34 ` Samuli Suominen [this message]
2012-10-29 11:40 ` Andrew Haley
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