[bug#45252] [PATCH] gnu: libffi: Add unreleased patch to fix float128 on powerpc64le.

[dftxbs3e <dftxbs3e@free.fr>]

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On Sun, 2020-12-20 at 12:32 -0800, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Hi,
Hello!

> My understanding is as follows:
> 
> - Patch 44778, linked above, was committed on core-updates branch in
>   4fff5ab24126a152b50c036b9bf8dc6f2740f094.
> - The libffi patch in this patch (45252) is the same as it was in
> 44778,
>   but the scheme code has been changed so that we can apply this
> patch
>   to the master branch without causing a rebuild of many packages.
> 
> Is that right?

Exactly!

> Based on...
> 
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20191124090305.1015485-1-fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com/
> 
> ...it sounds like upstream libffi maintainers may not have merged
> this
> patch yet.  We should probably check with them to see when they plan
> to
> merge it into upstream, but in the meantime there's no reason not to
> use
> the patch if it works.  Based on what Fabrice said in that thread, it
> sounds like the libffi maintainers may be a bit slow in responding to
> power-related bugs.
> 

That's not true, they've merged the patch: <
https://github.com/libffi/libffi/pull/561> - they just did not make a
release yet.

Leo

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