[Mageia-dev] OK to update libffi?

Christiaan Welvaart cjw at daneel.dyndns.org
Mon Aug 6 00:24:49 CEST 2012


On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, Olivier Blin wrote:

> David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> John Balcaen <mikala at ...> writes:
>>> 2012/8/5 David Walser <luigiwalser at ...>:
>>>> It has a new upstream version 3.0.11 available.  It builds fine here.
>>>>
>>>> The major number changes from 5 to 6 in this version, which is why I am
>> asking if it is OK to update this package.
>>> did you try it before ? (i mean at least rebuild major packages based on it? )
>>
>> No, but predicting what will build in Cauldron is a crapshoot at best anyway.
>>
>> I don't know exactly what this package does or even what most of the packages
>> that require it are.  I just know that it's installed on my system and I don't
>> want unmaintained stuff bitrotting away on my system, hence the interest.
>>
>> Hopefully someone with some insight can say yay or nay.

> Our biggest users are glib, mesa, wayland, python and llvm.
> They will have to be rebuilt.

Also firefox at least from version 15, unless we want to use the bundled 
libffi (add --enable-system-ffi to firefox-beta's configure options).


     Christiaan


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