glibc-2.14 and changes in rpc support (libtirpc)
On Saturday, June 11, 2011 16:11:35 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> historically, glibc provided all the ugly rpc support (while not nearly as
> relevant today, it still is used by way of nfs support). the glibc
> maintainers have opted to stop supporting this. at first they declined to
> accept new features, but now they've started removing support for new code
> to build against it.
>
> libtirpc started off to support the new features (namely ipv6 support), but
> has now taken on a new roll of supporting all the rpc code.
>
> so if you have a build bug due to glibc-2.14 due to missing rpc/ or rpcsvc/
> header, you're going to have to convert over to libtirpc.
>
> something like:
> inherit toolchain-funcs
> ...
> append-cppflags $($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) libtirpc --cflags)
> export LIBS+=" $($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) libtirpc --libs)"
>
> obviously the LIBS part will need tweaking based on your package.
after seeing the feedback of broken packages, and libtirpc itself not being
ready as a full replacement for the rpc symbols, i plan on implementing the
same kind of hack that fedora is using atm: re-exporting the symbols and
headers. this will give us time to migrate packages over to libtirpc without
being stuck on glibc-2.13 indefinitely.
the ABI will not be adversely affected long or short or any other term.
-mike
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