From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: giflib-5.1.0 (GIF image format library) API change Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:06:32 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140616000632.GA25616@thyrsus.com> References: Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402952810 10762 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2014 21:06:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Makoto Fujiwara , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 16 23:06:43 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wwe71-0007fT-Kf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:06:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wwe71-0004it-6M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:06:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wwe6u-0004gY-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:06:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wwe6i-0007be-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:51196 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wwe6i-0007bF-9J; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:06:24 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B44AE382484; Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:06:32 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172489 Archived-At: Glenn Morris : > > A failure to build is a bug, so I filed http://debbugs.gnu.org/17790 > for you. Please send any followup there. This one is my doing. I had to change the giflib API in 5.1.0 because of a subtle problem the 5.0.0 version produced in connection with dynamic-language wrappers (the actual bug report was about C# but it could have been any language with GC). The bug is noisy but the fix is trivial. I've asked Fujiwara-san to clean it up so the image.c code is properlyconditionalized for 5.0.0 or 5.1.0; once he does that, I'll review the patch, address any problems, and commit it. -- Eric S. Raymond