Bug#268140: libffi.la: wrong libdir setting

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Goswin Brederlow writes:
> libffi.la has the following libdir:
> 
> libdir='/usr/lib/../lib'
> 
> That cuases libtool to add the rpath option when linking against the
> library which in turn prevents shlibs to work (since no package
> contains /usr/lib/../lib/libffi.so) which in turn miscompiles
> e.g. sablevm which in turn causes FTBFS for a lot of java packages.
> 
> MfG
> 	Goswin
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-amd64

is this only the case for the amd64 architecture? Then it should not
be severity grave.

	Matthias