From: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mageia.org>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>,
Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>, <950414@bugs.debian.org>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>,
binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>, <gdb@sourceware.org>,
"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <823b4aa7-c638-e3b7-33a7-beff29467c88@mageia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200204232933.GU30118@bubble.grove.modra.org>
Den 5.2.2020 kl. 01:29, skrev Alan Modra:
> The binutils and gdb projects do not even pretend to a stable ABI or
> API for libbfd and libopcodes. Particularly not ABI, that gets broken
> on almost every week. perf and other projects that want to use libbfd
> or libopcodes are of course welcome to do so, but they then need to
> deal with the changing API. Complaints that Nick, Alan, or H.J. Lu
> have broken perf or similar *will be ignored*, except possibly to tell
> you that you may as well stop complaining.
>
> I've said before that the most obvious way to deal with the unstable
> API is to import a snapshot of the libbfd and libopcodes code into
> those projects and merge from upstream as new upstream support becomes
> desirable. That's not hard to do!
>
Yeah, it broke various bits for us too, but then again ...
The breakage is basically a variant of:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
What goes around comes around :)
Now we just need fixes all over :)
--
Thomas
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2020-02-04 23:29 ` Alan Modra
2020-02-04 23:48 ` Ben Hutchings
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