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Re: package conflict: cygwin and sunrpc
On Aug 17 23:09, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 8/17/2010 8:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > Both cygwin-1.7.6-1 and sunrpc-4.0-3 install
> > /usr/include/rpc/{types,xdr}.h. Depending on which package is installed
> > last, this causes spurious compilation failures, because the two
> > implementations differ on whether they need sockaddr_in to be declared.
> > Now that xdr functions have been subsumed into cygwin proper, is it
> > time to obsolete sunrpc?
>
> Yes, especially as it is orphaned, completely out of date -- even the
> upstream version has been replaced in "real" *nix distros by libtirpc or
> derivatives thereof.
>
> > On the other hand, libvirt wants to #include
> > <rpc/rpc.h>, which only sunrpc provides; is it time to provide that
> > header as part of base cygwin?
>
> No.
>
> What needs to happen is I need to get off my butt and ITP the following,
> already ported, packages:
>
> libtirpc-0.2.1-1
> rpcbind-0.2.0-1
> rpcgen-2.11.90_20100305-1
>
> Together, these provide a complete replacement for the existing sunrpc
> package, and are ported to work with cygwin's xdr implementation.
>
> The only problem is, I haven't had a chance to test rpcbind (it
> compiles, but I haven't set up the daemon, nor written a foo-config
> script for it, nor written the detailed cygwin documentation that
> daemon/services require). There might also be some cygwin-specific
> changes necessary, since even with cygrunsrv, the win32 service
> environment != unix daemon environment. (e.g. user authentication,
> changing uid/gid of remote procedure calls, etc...)
>
> If I posted my current packages, could somebody help out with that?
> Right now my hands are kinda full trying to get the sysroot libtool
> stuff shepherded...
What about creating an interim package of sunrpc without any headers,
and just upload the libtirpc-0.2.1-1 package which, hopefully, provides
the missing headers in its -devel package?
Note that I'm not talking about rebuilding the sunrpc package, just
re-packing.
Corinna
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