missing libffi.so master link

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński wrote:
> 2015-03-18 8:41 GMT+00:00 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
>> and yes, the symlink is also in gcc4core and the link is there on unstable9s:
>>
>>> /opt/csw/lib/libffi.so=libffi.so.4.0.1 s none CSWgcc4core
>> Of course I can remove gcc3java, but we also need to take care of gcc4java.
>> @Maciej: I guess I need to rebuild gcc for this, right?
> Yes, an upgrade to the version which does not attempt to install
> libffi.so in /opt/csw/lib. I don't recall which version that was.
If you can catch that it would be fine and perhaps the best solution.
> Riccardo, if you decide to work on GCC on 5.9, why not build GCC 4.8?
>
> Why 4.8 and not 4.9? 4.9 has dropped Solaris 9 support:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-05/msg00728.html

Actually 4.9 is reported to build on Solaris 9, both x86 and SPARC (you 
mention available packages) nut also on gcc website. I tried however and 
got a error which I will report separately.

The real problem is that I don't know how to keep a separate, older 
version for solaris 9 in mgar. Some kind of branch? a new Package? Since 
"current" is 4.9 right now. This is a problem that sooner or later needs 
to be done anyway. Older systems will eventually diverge before you give 
them up.

The same problem is why I did not start working on the "solaris 8 
respin" (apart form the general lack of  time and immense effort that 
getting the first gnustep package working is)

Riccardo