From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32749 invoked by alias); 29 Oct 2012 11:34:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 32420 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Oct 2012 11:34:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,TW_BF,TW_BG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (140.211.166.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:34:47 +0000 Received: from [10.169.32.2] (212-226-75-61-nat.elisa-mobile.fi [212.226.75.61]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 503BB33D7C7 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <508E68C0.8080804@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:34:00 -0000 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120916 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: libffi-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Re: souurce for old version of libffi References: <508E589C.20804@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <508E589C.20804@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact libffi-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libffi-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012/txt/msg00260.txt.bz2 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