Den mån 23 juni 2025 kl 10:18 skrev Joe Orton <jor...@redhat.com>: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > > Some background: > > The CMakeLists.txt in trunk was broken, in that it didn't contain the > major > > version. This was fixed in May 2025 [2]. > > RedHat[3] pulled the (broken) CMakeLists.txt from trunk and at least some > > RedHat-derived distributions carry a libserf package with only the > serf.pc > > file. From [4] it seems at least Fedora 39-41 were affected. > > Joe Orton changed the SPEC file in December 2024[4] to "provide both > > libserv-1.pc and libserf.pc pkg-config files". That fix will obviously > not > > be needed anymore if they update to the latest CMakeLists.txt version (or > > when we release something based on trunk), although they might decide to > > still provide libserf.pc. > > > > Maybe Joe can give us some more insight into RedHat's decision to use the > > CMake build system - does it provide advantages for packagers? > > Hi Daniel, > > We don't ship scons in RHEL so we try to avoid it as a build dependency. > From looking at the git history there is something about the soname > versioning being broken too for the scons build. I can't remember > exactly but maybe the soname changed between the autoconf-based build > and the scons one, or something like that? So maybe that didn't look in > a healthy state either. >
Serf never had an autoconf build system (oh, Greg will surely grey-beard me on that one, we had one but it was removed by him in r1699088 back in 2011). Maybe there were/are differences between SCons and CMake when it comes to soname (as well...). I'd consider it a bug with the CMake build system (unless thoroughly convinced otherwise) if it creates stuff that is different from the SCons system. > > What's the comment about the packages being broken about, the .pc files > issue? > See Graham Leggett's problems building Subversion on EL9: https://lists.apache.org/thread/4wkbjhfpg9yyn10x827g65r9y50dgl74. You clearly fixed that for Fedora42... Thanks, Daniel
