On 2018-02-22 11:30, Sergei Golovan wrote: > Hi Aurelien, > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > Starting with glibc 2.27, support for the "ieee" library (part of SVID > > specification) has been removed. The libieee.a library is therefore not > > shipped anymore. > > > > tcl8.6 already works without this library however the configure script > > detects it and enable support for it if available. The side effects are > > that the "-lieee" link option is then shipped in tclConfig.sh, and that > > the library ends up with the _LIB_VERSION symbol. > > > > To avoid ease the glibc 2.27, I believe it's better to separate the two. > > I have therefore attached a patch to always disable libieee support in > > tcl8.6. The patch can be removed once glibc 2.27 is in testing (but can > > also be kept safely). It will require tk8.6 to be rebuilt against the > > new tcl8.6 as it also exports the "-lieee" link option through > > tkConfig.sh and also removes the _LIB_VERSION symbol. A patch is also > > attached for that. > > > > Do you feel it is an acceptable way to proceed. Another alternative > > would be to just declare the _LIB_VERSION symbol as optional in both > > tcl8.6 and tk8.6, and handle the change through binNMUs as part of the > > glibc 2.27 transition. Please feel free to suggest other options. > > It's okay to me to apply this patch and dropped linking to libieee > preemptively. > Tcl tests seem to be okay without libieee, so I'll upload the patched package > shortly along with tcl/tk 8.5 and 8.7 (in experimental).
Thanks a lot for that. Do you also plan to upload tk in the next days? Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net _______________________________________________ Pkg-tcltk-devel mailing list Pkg-tcltk-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-tcltk-devel
