Re: devel/libffi on ARM

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 01:39:50AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Consider some common sense -- packages with a known history of breaking
> things on update (Boost anyone?) or a high degree of platform specific
> logic (compilers, libffi, most JIT implementation) should be updated
> with care. "Compiles on platform X" alone is not a good indicator of
> that.

On the other hand, I tried updating the package in June and asked for
help in "Subject: libffi update to 3.1 in wip", but noone replied.
Adam committed the update, breakage was detected and fixed, and we
have progress...

Anyway: Please send your patch upstream now, while it's fresh.
 Thomas