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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] OK to update libffi?</H1>
    <B>Christiaan Welvaart</B> 
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    <I>Mon Aug  6 00:24:49 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, Olivier Blin wrote:

&gt;<i> David Walser &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">luigiwalser at yahoo.com</A>&gt; writes:
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> John Balcaen &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mikala at ...</A>&gt; writes:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> 2012/8/5 David Walser &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">luigiwalser at ...</A>&gt;:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> It has a new upstream version 3.0.11 available.  It builds fine here.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> The major number changes from 5 to 6 in this version, which is why I am
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> asking if it is OK to update this package.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> did you try it before ? (i mean at least rebuild major packages based on it? )
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> No, but predicting what will build in Cauldron is a crapshoot at best anyway.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I don't know exactly what this package does or even what most of the packages
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> that require it are.  I just know that it's installed on my system and I don't
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> want unmaintained stuff bitrotting away on my system, hence the interest.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Hopefully someone with some insight can say yay or nay.
</I>
&gt;<i> Our biggest users are glib, mesa, wayland, python and llvm.
</I>&gt;<i> They will have to be rebuilt.
</I>
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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