On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I'm deeply sorry I will have to retire yap package because:
It crashes on i686 after updating GCC to 7
<
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421711>.
Last stable version is 7 years old (we have it in Fedora).
Last development version is 4 years old (Jerry James tried to update
but it does not work with non-lazy linking) and it fails on i686 too
<
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=18014527>.
Upstream does not respond
<
https://sourceforge.net/p/yap/mailman/message/35663387/> and playing
with the code reveals other bugs like signed interger overflows or
linkage failure with disabled optimizations because of wrong inlining.
Finally I don't understand the code especially the stack-based
interpreter.
The only reverse dependency is ppl where the yap support is optional.
That was the reason I tried to update, as I need a new version of ppl,
and the latest version of ppl-yap requires the development version of
yap. Petr pointed out a few problems with my attempt to update. If
anybody out there is interested in keeping yap in Fedora, I'm happy to
explain what I did, and the remaining problems to be addressed.
Otherwise, I'll update ppl once yap has been retired.
Regards,
--
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/