souurce for old version of libffi

[Tim Beech]

I'm sorry to say I got my wires crossed. ghc does indeed require an
earlier version of libffi, but the previous one will do. It's
libffi.so.5 it's looking for. I got muddled because of a similar
problem with another library.

On 27 October 2012 20:50, tim.beech <tim.beech@gmail.com> 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.