[committed, libffi] Match upstream soname

Matthias Klose doko@ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 10 14:04:00 GMT 2016


On 07.03.2016 12:59, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 03/06/2016 07:24 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> On 05.03.2016 19:28, Richard Henderson wrote:
>>> When I went to apply my symbol versioning patch to upstream,
>>> I discovered that upstream had already bumped their soname to
>>> 6.4.0, beyond the bump that I'd applied to gcc to 5.0.0.
>>>
>>> So I bumped upstream to 7.0.0, including the symbol versioning,
>>> and this adjusts gcc to match.
>>
>> Looking at the libffi upstream git repo, I can't find this change upstream, and
>> neither mentioned on the libffi mailing list. What am I missing?
>
> That must of libffi's workflow is via github, I think.
>
>    https://github.com/atgreen/libffi/pull/230

well, then I don't understand the subject, because there's no upstream commit 
yet.  Plus this patch doesn't seem to be relevant for GCC because libffi is only 
used as a convenience library, and isn't installed at all. Unless a distributor 
decides to ship libffi built from the GCC sources again.

Matthias



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