On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 19:07 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 18:51 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Time for another PSA... > > > > It appears libevdev 0.6 breaks the library's ABI without bumping the > > soname (and without an announcement here or anywhere else I can find, > > but an ABI change without an soname bump is just flat out wrong whether > > announced or not). 0.6 was sent to Rawhide, F19 and F20 simultaneously. > > > > The ABI change breaks GNOME in F20 and Rawhide (because clutter was > > using the calls that disappeared in the 0.6 build): > > > > undefined symbol: LIBEVDEV_READ_NORMAL (/lib/libclutter-1.0.so.0) > > undefined symbol: LIBEVDEV_READ_SYNC (/lib/libclutter-1.0.so.0) > > > > Dec 26 02:02:34 pressanykey gnome-session[1320]: gnome-shell: symbol > > lookup error: /lib64/libclutter-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: > > LIBEVDEV_READ_NORMAL > > > > Reported as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046426 . > > > > Rebuilding clutter is not trivial at present, and in fact builds of > > clutter appear to fail on this same libevdev issue. So right now, GNOME > > in Rawhide is broken if you install libevdev 0.6, and this monkey > > doesn't feel comfortable trying to fix it (I don't want to start > > randomly whacking things in clutter's code to try and make it build > > against the new libevdev). > > Actually, Mamoru Tasaka handily identified the offending upstream commit > in the bug report, so I'm sending a build of libevdev with the function > removal reverted to Rawhide for now. I've built (and *tested*...) a new libevdev that restores the 'deprecated' functions, along with a new clutter that stops using the 'deprecated' functions (hence fixing it from both ends). My Rawhide box is running fine, so I've sent both builds out. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
