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Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:34:42 -0500
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
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On 09/08/2009 17:04, Dave Korn wrote:
>    The current one isn't perfect, no, but is probably marginally better than
> anything built from the pre-merge upstream libffi repository.  Even after the
> merge there were still a bunch of bugs, but I've fixed them in GCC and am just
> waiting for one of the guys with privs to sourceware to check them in for me.
>
>    I've backported the fixed libffi for the 4.3 series, so if I get another
> release done from there it'll have a good libffi in it.  So, whatever happens
> next, we'll get a good libffi out of it.

So let me put it to you this way: I have two packages requiring libffi, 
namely gnustep-base and pygobject2, the latter of which explicitly deps 
libffi-3.0.  Which libffi should I use right now, gcc-4.3.2 or standalone?


Yaakov

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