From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:16:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <164286838577.8429.4021499312049157333@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220122161946.44098C0DA30@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <877daqq9kp.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29000"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, phst@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 25 05:17:25 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nCDGl-0007It-Vz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2022 05:17:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51676 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCDGk-0006iU-TG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:17:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52270) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCDFU-000575-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:16:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=54232 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCDFU-0007Xn-AI; Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:16:04 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=F1SFT+vlB8B5ksKUYr7XIQDRsVsERM1RR/orzJda0QM=; b=XLyWxY8vKVO7 QjYInylD74q29GMP35juF4uJVLUnFUt5P3WXOGZOLaqAkM9XckSPpv2D6TwK0WehUR9KR9drXrVu5 /soH0tEQAAh/mJ+Re00iTQ94TQbVCvk/H+r8ICkesOcxIFz5O2uDy1jXofw1PzAy8vri2IuccTOFY unZ6/Nb3r0KT3D+tW0Wu7AXtiY+uOSmbeRb/t4O+q/VgcfzveYdeWsFLE1cTDE7PlF5XMJdwSwKQl r5D+q3TPAvMR2sVfUvZfLwT0G5QHD3JKJV0cbP12EnSNZKpxUQGvs9kBE5mFbwJKIEWXXtTqHhpwz jM4wlpS/22Q9jnxiqz+ung==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCDFT-00037l-WA; Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:16:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Philipp Stephani on Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:44:34 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:285334 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > This seems to break the build for many people running older glibc > > versions. > I forgot to bump the minimum libseccomp version. I've done that now > (commit c34d06e3d75bfbea2605e3ae292850175ce5c235). Concretely, what will the effect of this be on people who build with an older Glibc version installed? > That can happen any day, if glibc folks make some change we didn't > know about. We cannot chase glibc development forever, we will never > succeed catching up with them, certainly not in the long run. It's true that problems like this can happen any day. Not just with Glibc but with lots of libraries that Emacs uses. But that has been the case for many years. Are things getting worse in some way? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)