Hello, On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Lars Wendler wrote: >This is a call for testers. If you feel brave enough, please give >bash-4.4 a shot and report all problems you might have with it. > >Add the following to you package.unmask file/directory: > > =app-shells/bash-4.4* > =sys-libs/readline-7.0*
with basically no testing so far: builds ok. >in order to get all readline reverse deps being built against new >readline. Reporting those packages in our bug tracker [1] would be >helpful. Creating a new bug or what? [2] seems inappropriate. >[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/594496 I've found this that I guess has to do with the new readline: >From the build.log of emerge -1 dev-lisp/clisp ==== [..] * Package: dev-lisp/clisp-2.49-r8 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: common-l...@gentoo.org * USE: X abi_x86_64 amd64 berkdb elibc_glibc gdbm gtk kernel_linux pcre postgres readline threads unicode userland_GNU zlib * FEATURES: ccache compressdebug nostrip preserve-libs sandbox splitdebug userpriv usersandbox [..] ;; Loading file /var/tmp/portage/dev-lisp/clisp-2.49-r8/work/clisp-2.49/builddir/readline/readline.fas ... *** - FFI::FIND-FOREIGN-VARIABLE: foreign variable #<FOREIGN-VARIABLE "rl_readline_state" #x000000000088B460> does not have the required size or alignment ./clisp-link: failed in /var/tmp/portage/dev-lisp/clisp-2.49-r8/work/clisp-2.49/builddir Makefile:2621: recipe for target 'base' failed make: *** [base] Error 1 [..] ==== # equery uses -i =dev-lisp/clisp-2.49-r8 | xargs echo +X +berkdb -dbus -fastcgi +gdbm +gtk -hyperspec -pari +pcre +postgres +readline +threads +unicode +zlib So, something with 'rl_readline_state' and how clisp uses that has changed that I won't dig into right now. Clisp maintainers? That seems to be the only problem with readline-7.0/bash-4.4 on this install (so far). -dnh -- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
