Re: [ITP] libffi (attn: Dave Korn)

["Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On 2013-04-10 16:34, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 10/04/2013 10:50, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > Only the man3 pages collide with gcc4-core.  But gcc's libffi.dll.a will
> > take priority over the one in /usr/lib (see gcc -print-search-dirs), so
> > manual intervention will be necessary until our gcc stops shipping libffi.
>
>    Okeydokey.  Upstream libffi generates cygffi-6.dll, so what I'll do is
> incorporate the patch (along with your others) into 4.7.3-1 (which will be a
> full curr: version release), and ship one last version of libffi4 (marked
> obsolete) with that but make sure the man pages, static import lib etc (-devel
> stuff basically) is not packaged.  That'll probably be in ten days or so, at
> which point you can upload the standalone libffi.  Makes sense?

After applying my libffi-noinst.patch, all you really need to do is 
remove the libffi4-4.7.* test releases and leave 4.5.3-3 in the distro 
until all libffi-dependent packages are rebuilt (most of which are mine).


Yaakov