Re: souurce for old version of libffi

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

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.