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  • From: Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] gperf update to 3.1 breaks things
  • Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 07:31:54 -0500

Good catch,

thanks everyone!

On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:04:31 +0100
Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be> wrote:

> 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
>
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