From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5489 invoked by alias); 29 Oct 2012 11:40:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 5477 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Oct 2012 11:40:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_BF,TW_BG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:40:30 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9TBeKXU004803 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:40:26 -0400 Received: from zebedee.pink (ovpn-113-82.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.82]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q9TBe49O031683; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:40:13 -0400 Message-ID: <508E6B13.20904@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:40:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120911 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samuli Suominen CC: libffi-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Re: souurce for old version of libffi References: <508E589C.20804@redhat.com> <508E68C0.8080804@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <508E68C0.8080804@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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/msg00261.txt.bz2 On 10/29/2012 11:30 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > 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. > > 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) Yes, that looks like it. AFAIK most distros won't allow packages to bundle magic library versions anyway. > The problem was that the bundled libffi conflicted with the system > libffi, as in, both got picked up one way or another Yes, I see. Andrew.