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#1 2014-06-14 22:07:34
- stevenhoneyman
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New giflib package...
with no prior warning that there are function changes/renames (that I saw at least) - it is going to cause some havoc amongst the (many) AUR mplayer PKGBUILDs, and probably other things too
(mine's fixed 
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Just an FYI for anyone that has updated today, and something stops working/compiling
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#2 2014-06-14 22:22:33
- karol
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Re: New giflib package...
I don't understand. What did you expect v. what happened?
Arch moves fast, you need to rebuild AUR packages once in a while. Why wouldn't they compile? Any details & fixes?
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#3 2014-06-14 22:26:04
- stevenhoneyman
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Re: New giflib package...
I stole the patch from the Arch mplayer package 
- giflib51.patch
I think basically libgif.so.6 -> libgif.so.7 introduces some new/changed function names, so code/patches will need applying to work around this until fixed in each upstream package
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#4 2014-06-14 22:33:07
- karol
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Re: New giflib package...
Ah, now I get it :-) Thanks.
I don't know if this warrants a home page news item.
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#5 2014-06-14 22:34:07
- stevenhoneyman
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Re: New giflib package...
Honestly, I'd have thought so. I mean... we got told 2 weeks in a row that "screen" sessions might disconnect during an update 
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#6 2014-06-15 00:08:27
- Allan
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Re: New giflib package...
One can make you lose important shells, the other requires you to find a patch during your rebuild. No announcement needed here.
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#7 2014-06-15 03:01:09
- Scimmia
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Re: New giflib package...
API breaks happen all of the time, it's not newsworthy. All of the packages in the main repos were updated before the update, AUR packages are your own responsibility.
FWIW, one of my git packages needed a patch. I noticed the todo list a while ago and sent a patch upstream so everything was ready to go before the update. It's not easy to watch for todo lists manually, but it's not that difficult, either.
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