Re: souurce for old version of libffi

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen at gentoo dot org>]

On 29/10/12 12:21, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 12:50 AM, tim.beech wrote:
> > I'm packaging GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) for Salix, a Slackware
> > derivative, and it depends on old versions of libgmp and libffi.
> >
> > Specificaly, it is looking for /usr/lib/libffi.so.3
> > and finding libffi.so.6
> >
> > These numbers don't seem to correspond to the version numbers for
> > libffi; as far as I know, the latest libffi for Slackware is
> > libffi-3.something.
> >
> > I've searched without success. I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could
> > point me in the direction of a tarball.
>
> Please, don't do this.  Let's fix GHC.  I may be able to help.
>
> Andrew.

I believe this is the link you are looking for:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5743
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411925 (downstream bug linking to 
the above bug)

The problem was that the bundled libffi conflicted with the system 
libffi, as in, both got picked up one way or another