-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2023-eec12787e7 2023-02-09 09:11:04.274287 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libffi Product : Fedora 37 Version : 3.4.4 Release : 1.fc37 URL : http://sourceware.org/libffi Summary : A portable foreign function interface library Description : Compilers for high level languages generate code that follow certain conventions. These conventions are necessary, in part, for separate compilation to work. One such convention is the "calling convention". The calling convention is a set of assumptions made by the compiler about where function arguments will be found on entry to a function. A calling convention also specifies where the return value for a function is found. Some programs may not know at the time of compilation what arguments are to be passed to a function. For instance, an interpreter may be told at run-time about the number and types of arguments used to call a given function. `Libffi' can be used in such programs to provide a bridge from the interpreter program to compiled code. The `libffi' library provides a portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any function specified by a call interface description at run time. FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. A foreign function interface is the popular name for the interface that allows code written in one language to call code written in another language. The `libffi' library really only provides the lowest, machine dependent layer of a fully featured foreign function interface. A layer must exist above `libffi' that handles type conversions for values passed between the two languages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Rebase to libffi 3.4.4. ================= At the request of the RISC-V developers we are rebasing from `libffi-3.4.2` to `libffi-3.4.4`. In order to test the rebase we used the Fedora Packaing tools mass-prebuild tooling to rebuild 144 packages (direct reverse dependencies of libffi) and evaluate the risk. There were 8 package build failures that needed analysis. Of the failures only 1 seemed related, Chromium, which failed to build with the new libffi. The others: bustle, llvm[9.0,10,11,12], p11-kit and ruby failed in the A-side and B-side tests. The Chromium build timed out when building in COPR, and then passed the build without a timeout on the A-side test (without libffi). This failure seems spurious and so I am moving forward with the rebase. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Feb 3 2023 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@xxxxxxxxxx> - 3.4.4-1 - Rebase to libffi 3.4.4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-eec12787e7' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
