Bug 490573

Summary: python ctypes should use system libffi
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adam Goode <adam>
Component: pythonAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Patch to python.spec to use system libffi none

Description Adam Goode 2009-03-17 02:37:47 UTC 
Description of problem:
_ctypes.so links in a private copy of libffi. It should use the system libffi to avoid duplication. A diff shows no significant changes between the system libffi and the one in ctypes.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-2.6-5.fc11.x86_64
Comment 1 Adam Goode 2009-03-17 03:32:29 UTC 
Actually, this is slightly more urgent than I realized, the local libffi in python doesn't contain ffi_closure_alloc and ffi_closure_free, which are needed to fix bug #488396.
Comment 2 Adam Goode 2009-03-17 04:00:45 UTC 
Created attachment 335476 [details]
Patch to python.spec to use system libffi
Comment 3 James Antill 2009-03-17 14:06:31 UTC 
Thanks for the patch, building now:

 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1246000