This is just an update to let maintainers know that the changes to
LD outlined here :

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking

will be in fedora rawhide pretty soon.

The details behind what this feature will do, along with how to
get failing packages to build can be found here :

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange

Also, packages that have failed to build under these new changes can
be found here :

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DSOLinkBugs


Thank-You for your time,
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Roland Grunberg wrote:
> This is just an update to let maintainers know that the changes to
> LD outlined here :
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking
>
> will be in fedora rawhide pretty soon.

As a result, you'll be causing dozens of FTBFS bugs just before the feature
freeze. I think this is entirely the wrong time in the release cycle to do
such a change, if it is done at all. (In fact, I still think we're breaking
backwards compatibility for no good reason, and in addition, the combination
of this "feature" and our distrowide packaging policy which dictates
removing .la files causes massive amounts of API incompatibility with
upstream projects. It's sad that FESCo rushed this through within seconds
with only one -1 vote (mine), entirely ignoring my strong objections and
seemingly unaware of the number of affected packages (which surprised even
me, it's even worse than I had expected), and that any attempt to discuss
this further was met with "we've already moved on to the next feature".)

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On 8.2.2010 23:37, Roland Grunberg wrote:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DSOLinkBugs

281 packages? Wov! (That's after the most often occurring problems have
been already resolved, am I right?)

+ let's say 300 "regular" FTBFS bugs -- the F13 mass rebuild will be
really great...

>
> Thank-You for your time,

You sure it wouldn't be better to wait for F14 with this? With "no
frozen rawhide" you can submit the changes into rawhide quite soon and
everybody has time enough to work on it.

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On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 17:37 -0500, Roland Grunberg wrote:
> This is just an update to let maintainers know that the changes to
> LD outlined here :
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking
>
> will be in fedora rawhide pretty soon.

Worth clarifying here: Rawhide or (and?) F13?
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> Worth clarifying here: Rawhide or (and?) F13?

They are still the same thing, so both. gcc-4.4.3-5.fc13 is there right now.


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On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:47 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Worth clarifying here: Rawhide or (and?) F13?
>
> They are still the same thing, so both.

They will only be so for a fairly short time, and you gave no specific
time frame for landing the change (only 'pretty soon'), so it was not
entirely clear. Thanks.
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On 8 February 2010 22:46, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:
> As a result, you'll be causing dozens of FTBFS bugs just before the feature
> freeze. I think this is entirely the wrong time in the release cycle to do
> such a change, if it is done at all.

I've been fixing upstream projects for weeks to build with
--no-as-needed. The list of projects that fail to build should be much
smaller now, especially for GNOME and Freedesktop stuff.

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Hi,
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Worth clarifying here: Rawhide or (and?) F13?
>
> They are still the same thing, so both. Â*gcc-4.4.3-5.fc13 is there right now.
>
I will say this change is introduced at wrong time, considering we
have only one week left for F13 Alpha freeze. This change should have
been done at time of F12 release where we were already having devel
branches working as F13.
From packager's point of view I can't see anything written at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange. That page
only describes about DSO Linking change but what am I supposed to do
when one of my package fails to build? Should I ask upstream to
hardcode required DSO names in Makefile or we need to modify CFLAGS in
%build section?

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2010/2/9 Parag N(पराग़) <panemade@gmail.com>:
> when one of my package fails to build? Should I ask upstream to
> hardcode required DSO names in Makefile or we need to modify CFLAGS in
> %build section?

Most of the time upstream (myself included) just forgets to add a
library at the end of the LDADD line, so all I had to do was send a
trivial patch upstream to add "-lm" or something.

See here for an example:
http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=152993

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Will there we a switch to give me the old behavior? I might want this for
my own legacy code.

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