On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 09:47:56PM +0200, Jimmy Jones wrote: > > For QPID-4417 on on RHEL5 I believe the Swig package will have the > > proper fix backported and released in future. > > I'll be great to get SWIG fixed upstread in RHEL5, however its not currently > fixed, plus some people might not update their packages anyway, so RHEL5 > users will almost certainly get subtly broken bindings. Wouldn't it be better > to reintroduce the minimum version check - only means when people are > building Qpid from source on RHEL5 they'll also need to build SWIG from > source, which they could even keep in their home directory.
It won't matter if someone running RHEL5 hasn't updated their Swig version: Swig is a build dependency, not a runtime dependency, so it only matters that the RHEL5 box on which the package is created has the updated Swig package with the backported fix. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
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