[Mageia-dev] OK to update libffi?

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
+