From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 73108 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2016 19:55:24 -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 73091 invoked by uid 89); 10 Oct 2016 19:55:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=suck, ASAP, Ken, nmh X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:55:23 +0000 Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B334F389AD2 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:55:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.116.17] (ovpn-116-17.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.116.17]) by int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u9AJtKLB003445 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:55:21 -0400 From: Yaakov Selkowitz Subject: HEADSUP: gdbm ABI on x86 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:55:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 Some background: The version of gdbm in the 32-bit distro was actually ABI 3 but carried a patch from the previous maintainer to artificially bump it to 4 for extraneous reasons. The current version of gdbm really is ABI 4 however, and not wanting to carry a patch indefinitely, I had not updated gdbm since I adopted it. (The 64-bit distro had a newer version from the beginning and so was unburdened by this historical baggage.) 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: clisp Ken Brown exim Pierre A. Humblet libaprutil1 David Rothenberger mutt Marco Atzeri nmh David Levine perl Achim Gratz qsf Jari Aalto suck Jari Aalto zsh Peter A. Castro TIA, -- Yaakov