On śro, 2017-05-31 at 14:19 +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hi! > > > The next release of dev-libs/expat is not far away and there are two > things that I would appreciate input with, before the next bump in Gentoo: > > > -DXML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T issues and Gentoo/Debian mismatch > ======================================================= > > With USE=unicode, on Gentoo two extra libraries are built: > > * libexpatu.so (with CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE) > * libexpatw.so (with CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T) > ^ > However, -DXML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T has only ever worked with 2-byte wchar_t, > while 4-byte wchar_t seems mainstream on Linux (and GCC -fshort-wchar > would required libc to have the same, if you actually wanted to pass > those wchar_t strings to wprintf and friends). > > So libexpatw.so in Gentoo is not functional at the moment. > > To make things worse, Debian has libexpatw.so with > CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE, which corresponds to current libexpatu.so in > Gentoo, rather than libexpatw.so. > > > How do you evaluate these options: > > a) Keep libexpatu.so + change libexpatw.so to CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE > > b) Drop libexpatu.so + change libexpatw.so to CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE
Does any other distribution use libexpatu.so? If not, then there's probably no point in keeping it. > > > Depend on dev-libs/libbsd > ========================= > > The next release is very likely to add (optional but helpful) support > for arc4random_buf that dev-libs/libbsd provides (especially on systems > with glibc prior to 2.25) [1]. I wonder if Expat's proximity to @system > has any strong implications on whether > > A) libbsd should be a default-off use dependency > IUSE="libbsd" RDEPEND="libbsd? ( dev-libs/libbsd )" > > B) libbsd could be a default-on use dependency > IUSE="+libbsd" RDEPEND="libbsd? ( dev-libs/libbsd )" I'd dare say the feature is 'arc4random', then that should be the name of the flag. > C) libbsd could even go into DEPEND and RDEPEND directly, or > RDEPEND="dev-libs/libbsd" > > D) libbsd should not become any kind of future dependency of > dev-libs/expat. > -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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