[Possible bug] Broken libffi symlink in current?
 

Hi everyone,

I was trying to compile something when the compiling suddenly stopped with this complaint:

Upon inspection, it turned out that /usr/lib64/libffi.so is a broken symlink to /usr/lib64/libffi.so.4

I just want to confirm if this is the case now or it's just a quirk of my heavily customized box. If this is confirmed, then I plan to report the bug to Patrick.

Thanks in advance!

Pretty sure it's a quirk of your box. In slackware-13.37, libffi.so.4 was part of the gcc-java package, but later versions included libffi.so.6 as part of a standalone libffi package. If you upgraded your compiler, that would have been removed (but the symlink also should have been).

Since you say that you're running -current, the thing to do is install (or reinstall) the libffi package and it should take care of the problem.

Thank you Patrick! In fact just manually editing the symlink got around the problem but I will reinstall libffi to be on the safe side of things. Stuff compiles OK upon simply editing the symlink to point out to the correct library. Marking thread as solved.