[HEADSUP] Dropping libopenssl098 from distro

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Jan 30 22:15:00 GMT 2015


On 1/30/2015 2:02 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 11:40 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 1/30/2015 8:25 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 1/30/2015 4:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Jan 29 15:25, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> I'm attaching the patches that I applied (on top of Reini's patches) in
>>>>> order to make the build succeed.  I also had to use libdb4.5 instead of
>>>>> libdb4.8.
>>>>
>>>> Is that ok?  I mean, shouldn't a package always try to use the latest
>>>> version?  What's the problem you're observing ?  Maybe Volker can help
>>>> here?
>>>
>>> The clisp-2.48 code uses some macros and structures that are defined in the
>>> db4.5 headers but have changed or disappeared in db4.8.  I'll see if I can
>>> figure out how to update the code for db4.8.
>>
>> OK, that wasn't so hard.  I'm attaching the patch that I applied, in case Reini
>> or Volker has a chance to look at it.  All 76 tests for the berkeley-db module
>> passed.
>
> FYI, this is the patch Fedora uses for this issue:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/clisp.git/plain/clisp-db.patch

That patch doesn't deal with the differences between db4.5 and db4.8 (e.g., 
DB_XIDDATASIZE was changed to DB_GID_SIZE, among other things).  It must be for 
a different issue.

Ken



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