On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:14:58 +0100
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> skribis:
> 
> > Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@inbox.ru> writes:  
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> This is how we tweak libffi in gentoo (guix-friendly patch):
> >>     http://code.haskell.org/~slyfox/0001-gnu-libffi-apply-alpha-build-fix.patch.txt
> >>
> >> Upstream fixed libffi in a more invasive way a few years ago:
> >>     
> >> git master passes build/test on alpha but didn't cut a release yet.  
> >
> > Great! That's good to know. Libffi for alpha builds fine for me with
> > this patch,  
> 
> Excellent.  That’s another patch to schedule for the next
> ‘core-updates’.

I've heard core-updates were merged to master. Congratulations!

Fixed minor collision against today's master in both patches. Attached
updated patches as:
  0001-gnu-add-basic-support-for-alpha-linux-system.patch
  0001-gnu-libffi-apply-alpha-build-fix.patch

-- 

  Sergei