Hi all, There is a conflict in the book that could potentially cause a lot of problems. The package libffi was added not too long ago, and installs libffi.so.5.0.10 into /usr/lib. Many packages will link to it if it is installed.
The java language in the GCC compiler set also installs a libffi. Unfortunately it is libffi.so.4.0.1. If you install GCC with the java language and you already had the libffi package installed with other programs and libraries linked to libffi.so.5, when the GCC overwrites it with libfffi.so.4, things will get ugly. What is the best way to mention this in the book? My thoughts are to put a note in the libffi package saying to the effect "If you have any thoughts at all about installing the java language from the GCC package, do not install this package, instead, install the GCC java now." Comments are welcome. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 18:06:00 up 29 days, 1:00, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
