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Bug 290057 - x11-wm/xmonad-0.8.1: rdepends on dev-libs/libffi
Summary: x11-wm/xmonad-0.8.1: rdepends on dev-libs/libffi
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2009-10-21 19:56 UTC by Nicolas Dietrich
Modified: 2009-10-21 22:54 UTC (History)
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Description Nicolas Dietrich 2009-10-21 19:56:52 UTC 
Missing runtime dependency in x11-wm/xmonad-0.8.1 ebuild: dev-libs/libffi - xmonad refuses to run without that library.



Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-21 20:04:41 UTC 
/tmp/xmonad-0.8.1 $ grep -r -i ffi *
TODO:    - When are borders set?  Prove that the current handling is sufficient.

Nope, there's no reference to libffi in xmonad at all.
Comment 2 Nicolas Dietrich 2009-10-21 22:54:02 UTC 
Oh, right, sorry. My xmonad binary was built on a Debian system on the same box sharing the home directory... In Debian, xmonad actually depends on libffi5.

That's why I got:
/home/nico/.xmonad/xmonad-i386-linux: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Installing dev-libs/libffi solved my special problem on Gentoo.