----- Original Message ----- > From: "Miro Hrončok" <mhron...@redhat.com> > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 6:51:56 PM > Subject: Re: Proposal to fail builds if RPATH is found in Fedora 35 > > On 26. 03. 21 18:24, Charalampos Stratakis wrote: > > python2.7 churchyard cstratak torsava vstinner > > I was curious. The error is: > > 0001: file '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/pyexpat.so' contains a > standard > rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] > > And the cause is... our own patch 😱 > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python2.7/blob/rawhide/f/00187-add-RPATH-to-pyexpat.patch > > For reasons I don't understand, the bugzilla referenced from the patch is > private. It is a RHEL 6.2 bugzilla from 2012 that could be summarized as: > > "If the user sets $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to a directory with broken/incompatible > libraries, Python breaks." > > And as solution to this problem, RPATH was set to '%{_libdir}' for pyexpat > (because the reporter happened to have incompatible libexpat in there and not > different libraries). > > If I cared about python2.7 in Fedora, I'd say we should get rid of this > patch. > > (OTOH if this patch is actually desired, we certainly need a lot more of > them.) > > -- > Miro Hrončok > -- > Phone: +420777974800 > IRC: mhroncok > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
I would certainly drop this patch from python2.7 (or maybe drop python2.7 entirely but that's a different topic). -- Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
