HEADSUP: gdbm ABI on x86

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 22 19:57:00 GMT 2017


On 2016-10-10 14:55, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> After closely examining the API changes between 1.8.3 (ABI 3) and 1.9+
> (ABI 4) as well as how the library is typically used, I believe they are
> sufficiently compatible on 32-bit architectures.  Therefore, I have
> proceeded to update the x86 gdbm to finally match the current upstream
> (and our x86_64 package), but strongly recommend that packages which use
> gdbm be rebuilt with libgdbm-devel-1.12-1 ASAP to be safe.
>
> Besides my own packages, the following are affected:
>
> nmh                                          David Levine

David, I believe that this is the last package yet to be rebuilt.  Any 
chance of an update or rebuild?

-- 
Yaakov



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