[HEADS UP] I've just built Erlang R16A in Rawhide.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:29:04PM +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello All!
> 
> As a part of the planned Erlang upgrade to R16 I updated it to the
> recently released R16A (Release Candidate). I'm expecting a lot of
> breakage. Unfortunately all incompatibilities are hidden from end
> users, and some applications will install fine but refuse to start.
> Instead they will throw up unexpected (by end user, I'm aware of this
> issue) message to the console - "Driver compiled with incorrect
> version of erl_driver.h". I'm working on tracking them down and
> rebuilding them. Also I plan to add another one constraint to these
> packages - a dependency on a Port protocol version (additional
> "Requires:"), so a major update will pull affected packages into
> "Broken Dependencies" list thus preventing from disruptive updates.
> 
> Note - I won't plan to upgrade Fedora 17/18 to R16 to not to hurt our
> current users. Instead I encourage everyone who's interested in trying
> a very latest Erlang to upgrade to Rawhide/F19 asap.

Are any changes required to C erl_interface / ei.h users?  I mean
at the source level, not just recompiling.

Rich.

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