Über-recently, libXaw broke. This caused apps that build against libXaw to fail to compile with error messages that were less than helpful in determining the cause of the problem. Additionally, upgrading libXaw would fail as apps that required it would complain about needing libXaw.so.6 or libXaw.so.7 on upgrades. Several bugs have been filed about these problems, and the issue is now resolved in the latest rawhide libXaw package. If you experience _any_ libXaw related issues, upgrade _all_ packages to the latest rawhide. Package maintainers: You may or may not have to recompile your packages against the fixed libXaw package. Please test your applications and if any problems are discovered, rebuild them and test again. Don't report libXaw bugs before testing with the latest builds. Full stop. Details for the inquisitive: The change from the Red Hat "beehive" buildsystem, to the new mock based "brew" buildsystem has changed a number of assumptions about how packages get built, and what is expected. Previously, our beehive system had pretty fully loaded buildroots, which one could rely intentionally, or coincidentally on to provide various dependencies. As a result, many packages did not list the complete set of BuildRequires they needed to successfully compile properly. With the new mock based "brew" system, as many/most of you are aware, only a very minimal set of default packages are present in the buildroot, plus whatever dependencies the package specifies and their indirect deps. For the last few weeks people have been reporting build failures with mock to help to get all Fedora packages fixed to specify all of their needed deps. Most of these are trivial (if not tedious) fixes, but there have been a few zingers as well. The libXaw problem was annoying as hell, but Bill Nottingham tracked it down to a missing dependency on "ed", which has now been added to the latest package. Grr. Ah well, it's fixed now. People can stop nagging me in email and IRC about it now. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris * Open Source Advocate * http://mharris.ca Proud Canadian. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
