Re: Last call for NEWS entries for 0.31

Subject: Re: Last call for NEWS entries for 0.31

Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 08:23:32 -0300

To: Dan Čermák

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: David Bremner


Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@posteo.net> writes:

> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>
>> Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> - on ppc64 "comparing existing to exported symbols" from
>>>   T360-symbol-hiding fails as well
>>
>> This is more-or-less known [1]. The problem is that ppc64 reports
>> defined functions as 'D' in nm output. At least on ELF architectures,
>> readelf -Ws is more reliable. How many people would using readelf break
>> things for? Currently the test does not run on macOS, afaik.
>
> So it is ok if I just skip this test on ppc64? Or can anything be done
> about this (I must admit that I have relatively little insight into
> this)?

I'd say it's OK to skip it for now. Hopefully we will fix it for the
next release; I didn't want to make the switch to readelf in the late
stages of a release.

d
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