Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: aballier@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH autotools-multilib] Check installed headers for consistency.
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:02:00
Message-Id: 20130127140224.70e56b8e@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH autotools-multilib] Check installed headers for consistency. by Alexis Ballier
1 On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:44:23 -0300
2 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:21:01 +0100
5 > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > The installed headers are supposed not to change between ABIs. If they
8 > > do, we need to do something special about them or everything is going
9 > > to end up real bad.
10 > >
11 > > Therefore, do a checksum of headers installed in /usr/include after
12 > > each ABI's src_install() and die if they don't match.
13 >
14 > sounds a bit restrictive IMHO, but such a kind of check is probably
15 > necessary and has to be added before the eclass is widespread.
16 > you could probably add a way to disable those checks for the
17 > hypothetical case there is a false positive (ie: yes the headers
18 > differ but it doesn't matter).
19
20 Well, since this is eclass and not the PMS, we can add it anytime when
21 it becomes really necessary ;).
22
23 --
24 Best regards,
25 Michał Górny

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