Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-25 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 10:09 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 20:58 -0400, Anthony Green wrote: Sorry folks -- thanks for untagging. I'll ping the list again after May 9, as was suggested earlier in this thread. Here's a lightly tested patch which implements my suggestion

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Horst H. von Brand wrote: keeping generated files in git is just dumb. +1, but IMHO this is true even without the in git addition. Generated files also have no business being in a source tarball, and IMHO the fact that the autotools get that wrong entirely disqualifies them from being a

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-15 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Frank Ch. Eigler f...@redhat.com wrote: Horst H. von Brand vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl writes: [...] Please go with (3), keeping generated files in git is just dumb. Please don't demean those who do it for well-considered reasons. I'm sorry if it came through too abrasive, but I just can't see

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ralf Corsepius wrote: You guys seem to be unable to comprehend the differences between generated sources and generated intermediate files. generated sources is an oxymoron. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-14 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 20:58 -0400, Anthony Green wrote: Sorry folks -- thanks for untagging. I'll ping the list again after May 9, as was suggested earlier in this thread. Here's a lightly tested patch which implements my suggestion of keeping the symbols as empty stubs. Incidentally -

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-14 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: [...] Incidentally - keeping the generated autotools stuff in git makes tracking down what *really* changed extremely painful. It looks like the ABI was bumped in ee6696fdf4768ba6dd037fb6dd99435afa13816e but that commit has thousands of lines of

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-14 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Horst H. von Brand vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl writes: [...] Please go with (3), keeping generated files in git is just dumb. Please don't demean those who do it for well-considered reasons. - FChE -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Anthony Green gr...@redhat.com wrote: Hello,  I recently release libffi 3.0.11, and ABI changes are mandating a .so  number change.  Despite the ABI change, I suspect that simple rebuilds  are all that will be required for dependent packages.  The ABI

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-13 Thread Andrew Haley
On 04/13/2012 01:59 AM, Anthony Green wrote: I recently release libffi 3.0.11, and ABI changes are mandating a .so number change. Despite the ABI change, I suspect that simple rebuilds are all that will be required for dependent packages. The ABI changes are simply: 1. Some

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-13 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/13/2012 01:59 AM, Anthony Green wrote:   I recently release libffi 3.0.11, and ABI changes are mandating a .so   number change.  Despite the ABI change, I suspect that simple rebuilds   are all that will be required

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 20:59 -0400, Anthony Green wrote: 2. A new function has been introduced to support variadic functions (ffi_prep_cif_var). Libtool's guidelines for .so versioning mandate that I move from libffi.so.5.0.11 to libffi.so.6.0.0 (because functions have been

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-13 Thread Ray Strode
Hi, On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: You have to temper guidelines with some thought.  How recently have these symbols been introduced?  Are you aware of anything that actually calls them?  If nothing does, have you considered simply removing them?  

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Anthony Green wrote: I recently release libffi 3.0.11, and ABI changes are mandating a .so number change. Despite the ABI change, I suspect that simple rebuilds are all that will be required for dependent packages. Can you untag your build for a few weeks? It is too disruptive at the

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-13 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:34:55 -0500 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Anthony Green wrote: I recently release libffi 3.0.11, and ABI changes are mandating a .so number change. Despite the ABI change, I suspect that simple rebuilds are all that will be required for dependent

Re: disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-13 Thread Anthony Green
thinking that a Subject: Re: disruptive libffi upgrade On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:34:55 -0500 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Anthony Green wrote: I recently release libffi 3.0.11, and ABI changes are mandating a .so number change. Despite the ABI change, I suspect that simple

disruptive libffi upgrade

2012-04-12 Thread Anthony Green
Hello, I recently release libffi 3.0.11, and ABI changes are mandating a .so number change. Despite the ABI change, I suspect that simple rebuilds are all that will be required for dependent packages. The ABI changes are simply: 1. Some internal debugging functions that should never