From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 77503 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2016 19:24:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 77426 invoked by uid 89); 11 Oct 2016 19:24:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=downloadshtml, downloads.html, HX-DKIM:Filter, 1.8.3 X-HELO: mail-in-11.arcor-online.net Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (HELO mail-in-11.arcor-online.net) (151.189.21.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:24:28 +0000 Received: from mail-in-18-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-18-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.35]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3stn4970Ypz32BM for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:24:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by mail-in-18-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE43F355139 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:24:25 +0200 (CEST) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-07.arcor-online.net 3stn49608sz1hy4 Received: from Gertrud (p54B7E8DF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.183.232.223]) (Authenticated sender: stromeko@arcor.de) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3stn49608sz1hy4 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:24:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: HEADSUP: gdbm ABI on x86 References: Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:24:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Yaakov Selkowitz's message of "Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:55:16 -0500") Message-ID: <87vawyelju.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > 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: > > perl Achim Gratz I am still waiting for 5.22.3 to be released upstream. Apparently some security fix is still controversial, so I don't think the release will happen very soon. I have however run all the tests on x86 again after updating Cygwin and they still pass, so I'd think we are OK without a rebuild at the moment. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada