On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 12:02:08 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Isn't GDB moving to C++ soon? C++ is in the plan but I do not know the schedule. > This means that possibility will be lost anyway. I think it is already lost by all the DT_NEEDED libpython versions anyway. > If that's the only reason, going with DT_NEEDED seems fine. Probably but I do not plan to change this in this off-trunk patch as all of this build-id support I am rewriting these weeks from scratch anyway. But then also in 2009 rpm maintainers suggested https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486423#c3 # calling rpmquery instead of using librpm API would be beneficial for GDB which I refused that time # The era of shell scripting with pipes is hopefully for 20+ years gone. but with all the changes in recent years I am not sure if one really should not popen some commands. librpm is breaking any programs linking to it anyway: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gdb.git/tree/gdb-6.6-buildid-locate-rpm-librpm-workaround.patch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643031 Jan Kratochvil -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct