libffi - summary of problems

[Dagobert Michelsen]

> Am 20.02.2014 um 01:32 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> 
> TL;DR /opt/csw/lib/ffi
> 
> 2014-02-20 0:21 GMT+00:00 Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org>:
>> Did some package not install properly?
> 
> We had trouble with libffi, because there were two different pieces of
> software trying to claim libffi.so. We've moved that file into a
> subdirectory:
> 
>> pkgchk -L CSWlibffi-dev | grep '\.so'
> /opt/csw/lib/ffi/libffi.so=../libffi.so.5.0.10 s none CSWlibffi-dev
> /opt/csw/lib/sparcv9/ffi/libffi.so=../libffi.so.5.0.10 s none CSWlibffi-dev
> 
> You need to add -L/opt/csw/lib/ffi to the linker invocation, or set an
> environment variable that will do that. Or set a variable in GAR which
> will cause an environment variable to be exported that will cause that
> flag to be added to the linker invocation (yay layers of indirection!
> ;-) ).
> 
> I think that the other piece of software was...
> 
>> bin/pkgdb -r SunOS5.9 show basename libffi.so
> /opt/csw/lib/sparcv9/ffi/libffi.so CSWlibffi-dev
> /opt/csw/gcc3/lib/sparcv9/libffi.so CSWgcc3java
> /opt/csw/lib/libffi.so CSWgcc3javart, CSWgcc4core
> /opt/csw/gcc3/lib/libffi.so CSWgcc3java
> /opt/csw/lib/sparcv9/libffi.so CSWgcc3javart, CSWgcc4core
> /opt/csw/lib/ffi/libffi.so CSWlibffi-dev
> 
> Yes, GCC. But this seems to be no longer the case in our Solaris 10 catalog.
> 
> Maciej

Maybe we can relocate back libffi?

Best regards -- Dago