Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 433293
Link against system libffi
Last modified: 2009-07-14 13:57:20 EDT
Description of problem: libffi was recently accepted into rawhide and F-8. plt-scheme should use the system libffi instead of bundling their own. The system libffi has a number of improvements, including fixes for SELinux. I'm attaching a hackish patch. I've also filed a bug upstream to add this functionality. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 295168 [details] source patch
This is only for rawhide, isn't it?
(In reply to comment #2) > This is only for rawhide, isn't it? libffi is in F-8 as well, but I'll leave it up to you.
Have you already tried to build it (in mock or otherwise), and tested it somewhat?
I have have updated the package to the newest version. I haven't yet updated the patch yet. Maybe this should be passed on to upstream, so they can implement a configure flag to choose between bundled and system library.
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