Public bug reported:
As explained in
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/ffcall/README?root=libffcall
There is absolutely no reason to build libffcall shared libraries.
Moreover, they are actually harmful.
In fact, the crash reported in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffcall/+bug/751112
is caused by the shared libraries: when clisp is build with libffcall shared
libraries (i.e., "-lavcall -lcallback")
the test suite segfaults, but when clisp is built with libffcall static
libraries (i.e., "/usr/bin/libavcall.a /usr/lib/libavcall.a")
everything works just fine (as explained in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffcall/+bug/274951).
Let me repeat:
1. the package libffcall1 which only distributes libavcall.so and
libcallback.so should be REMOVED.
There is no reason to distribute the shared libraries.
2. CLISP should be linked with libavcall.a and libcallback.a - statically.
otherwise it crashes in FFI callbacks.
3. libffcall1-dev should be kept, it works just fine; but it should NOT
depend on libffcall1.
** Affects: ffcall (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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