[PATCH 3/3] Remove --enable-obsolete-rpc configure flag

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 13:17:22 GMT 2020


On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 02:06:10PM +0200, GNU C Library wrote:
> From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> 
> Sun RPC was removed from glibc. This includes rpcgen program, librpcsvc,
> and Sun RPC headers. Also test for bug #20790 was removed
> (test for rpcgen).
> 
> Backward compatibility for old programs is kept only for architectures
> and ABIs that have been added in or before version 2.28.
> 
> libtirpc is mature enough, librpcsvc and rpcgen are provided in
> rpcsvc-proto project.
> 
> NOTE: libnsl code depends on Sun RPC (installed libnsl headers use
> installed Sun RPC headers), thus --enable-obsolete-rpc was a dependency
> for --enable-obsolete-nsl (removed in previous commit).

Without --enable-obsolete-nsl nor --enable-obsolete-rpc, are the installed
glibc binaries and header files the same as before this patch, excluding
debug info?  If the answer is yes, it is OK.

Thanks.

H.J.


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