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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 09:16:52 +0100, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a quick note to all: We should consider reverting the gperf update to
> 3.1 in the grimoire or thinking about a proper fixup and triggery
> (check_dependents_versionjump() comes to mind) of dependent spells.
> Reason:
>
>         http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8789
>
>         The 'len' parameter of the hash function and of the lookup
>         function is now of type 'size_t' instead of 'unsigned int'.
>         This makes it safe to call these functions with strings of
>         length > 4 GB, on 64-bit machines.
>
>
> This breaks eudev, libcap, possibly qtwebkit.

It definitely breaks compiling eudev and libcap.
I am not sure about qtwebkit or qtwebengine as I have recompiled them 
since the gperf update

I have prepared an up_trigger for gperf, bit I suspect that it would be 
best to revert gpref until there is a fix for eudev


I have revert the update
Regards, Treeve
> Alrighty then,
>
> Thomas