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Author: Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>
Date:   Sat Sep 30 10:06:52 2017 -0400

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+# libffi tarballs for GHC
+
+This repository contains the source tarballs used to
+build [libffi](https://github.com/libffi/libffi/issues/296)
+for [GHC](https://ghc.haskell.org/). While in principle this repository should
+contain official source tarballs from the libffi project, the
+recent [lack of releases](https://github.com/libffi/libffi/issues/296) has meant
+that we have had to start packaging our own snapshots.
+
+Note that in order to reduce working tree size, this repository contains only
+orphan branches. Each branch contains one source tarball. These tarballs and
+their branches are generated using the `mk-snapshot.sh` script.
+
+In order to update the `libffi` version built by GHC, first run
+`mk-snapshot.sh`, then push the resulting branch to `git.haskell.org`, and
+finally update the submodule commit in the `ghc` repository.