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From: "Toralf Förster" <toralf@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: libffi-3.4 is on the horison (unkeyworded for now, ~arch soon)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 07:15:25
Message-Id: f6c4f949-50d9-d3b4-2be5-824f3cb8266a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] libffi-3.4 is on the horison (unkeyworded for now, ~arch soon) by Sergei Trofimovich
1 On 7/8/21 1:20 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
2 > Tl;DR
3 > -----
4 >
5 > libffi-3.4 entered ::gento without KEYWORDS today.
6 > After some testing it will be promoted into ~arch.
7 >
8 > libffi has two modes:
9 > 1. USE=-exec-static-trampoline: old (default, safe)
10 > 2. USE=exec-static-trampoline: new (cool, might expose latent bugs)
11 >
12 > +toralf@ (CC):
13 > Toralf, can we set a tinderbox run for [1.]
14 > >=dev-libs/libffi-3.4[-exec-static-trampoline]
15 > case?
16 >
17 > [2.] would also be nice:
18 > >=dev-libs/libffi-3.4[exec-static-trampoline]
19 > My worry is that it will generate a lot of collateral
20 > breakage (at least some percentage of dev-haskell/*).
21 >
22 > Tracker: https://bugs.gentoo.org/801109
23 > Known examples: https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Project:Toolchain#libffi-3.4
24
25 will do
26
27 > Have fun!
28 >
29 sure
30
31 --
32 Toralf
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