On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 11:25 AM Jeff Law <law(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 10:46 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:35 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > So I was trying to update libseccomp last night, and I was able to
> > build it for everything except aarch64 on Rawhide because it says the
> > compiler can't build executables[1].
> >
> > Looking a bit closer, it looks like the compiler stack is out of sync
> > again with annobin.
> >
> > Is there anything that can be done to keep the compiler teams from
> > submitting gcc into rawhide without doing the required rebuild cycle
> > to make it so annobin works?
> >
> > And we're going to have the same problem with clang now that annobin
> > grew a clang plugin, so I would want neither LLVM nor GCC to land in
> > Rawhide unless those teams are literally ensuring that annobin isn't
> > breaking the compiler afterward.
> >
> > I'm personally very tired of having the compiler break so frequently
> > because of that plugin. Either some kind of mechanism to hold back GCC
> > builds until annobin works is implemented, or I'd much rather see the
> > whole thing go away. Obviously, you could just *bundle* annobin into
> > the GCC package and build it together to ensure it never broke, but
> > that option was discarded already[2].
> >
> > Somebody fix it. ASAP.
>
> I've kicked off an annobin build for the short term issue.
>
> I agree here, we used to have the same issue with gcc-plugins back in
> the day, sadly this is nothing new :-/
:( I'll raise it again with Nick and Jakub, it's a sore point for everyone I
think and it causes far more friction than just what we see here in Fedora.
There is now a FESCo ticket proposing all GCC and Clang updates to be
blocked on some kind of gating mechanism:
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2454
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