[GHC] #7819: FreeBSD without system libffi: Shared object "libffi.so.6" not found

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#7819: FreeBSD without system libffi: Shared object "libffi.so.6" not found
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  Reporter:  igloo         |          Owner:                  
      Type:  bug           |         Status:  new             
  Priority:  high          |      Milestone:  7.8.1           
 Component:  Build System  |        Version:  7.6.2           
Resolution:                |       Keywords:                  
        Os:  FreeBSD       |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
   Failure:  None/Unknown  |     Difficulty:  Unknown         
  Testcase:                |      Blockedby:                  
  Blocking:                |        Related:                  
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Comment(by pgj):

 Replying to [comment:13 igloo]:
 > Thanks, I've applied the patches.

 Thanks!

 > Do the nightly builders have a patched ld?

 Currently they do not have, but I can patch the `rtld(1)` any time.  My
 problem was rather that the users who may want to use produced snapshots
 will not have this patch installed.  But perhaps I could add a note on
 this to somewhere in the wiki.

 > If so, I guess we should close the ticket now: I'm not sure what else we
 can do but wait for FreeBSD to fix the bug.

 I can understand that you do not want to clutter the upstream sources with
 such corner cases -- I think I will be able to handle this in the
 corresponding port, I was just hoping that we could have a flag to keep it
 working without relying on `$ORIGIN`.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7819#comment:14>
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