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diff --git a/gnu/packages/libffi.scm b/gnu/packages/libffi.scm
index c1d50ec314..b61dbc8657 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/libffi.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/libffi.scm
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2017, 2019 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -127,6 +128,30 @@ conversions for values passed between the two languages.")
(("'cc testownlib") "'gcc testownlib"))
(invoke "py.test" "-v" "c/" "testing/")
#t))
+ (add-before 'check 'patch-paths-of-dynamically-loaded-libraries
+ (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
+ ;; Shared libraries should be referred by their absolute path as
+ ;; using find_library or the like with their name fail when the
+ ;; resolved .so object is a linker script rather than an ELF
+ ;; binary (this is a limitation of the ctype library of Python).
+ (let* ((glibc (assoc-ref inputs "libc"))
+ (libm (string-append glibc "/lib/libm.so.6"))
+ (libc (string-append glibc "/lib/libc.so.6")))
+ (substitute* '("testing/cffi0/test_function.py"
+ "testing/cffi0/test_parsing.py"
+ "testing/cffi0/test_unicode_literals.py"
+ "testing/cffi0/test_zdistutils.py"
+ "testing/cffi1/test_recompiler.py")
+ (("lib_m = ['\"]{1}m['\"]{1}")
+ (format #f "lib_m = '~a'" libm)))
+ (substitute* '("testing/cffi0/test_verify.py"
+ "testing/cffi1/test_verify1.py")
+ (("lib_m = \\[['\"]{1}m['\"]{1}\\]")
+ (format #f "lib_m = ['~a']" libm)))
+ (substitute* "c/test_c.py"
+ (("find_and_load_library\\(['\"]{1}c['\"]{1}")
+ (format #f "find_and_load_library('~a'" libc)))
+ #t)))
(add-before 'check 'disable-failing-test
;; This is assumed to be a libffi issue:
;; https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/312/tests-failed-with-armv8
@@ -134,10 +159,9 @@ conversions for values passed between the two languages.")
(substitute* "testing/cffi0/test_ownlib.py"
(("ret.left") "ownlib.left"))
#t)))))
- (home-page "https://cffi.readthedocs.org")
+ (home-page "https://cffi.readthedocs.io/")
(synopsis "Foreign function interface for Python")
- (description
- "Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.")
+ (description "Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.")
(license expat)))
(define-public python2-cffi