F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; <netdb.h> uncompilable

Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com
Thu May 5 16:52:35 UTC 2011


On Thu, 05 May 2011 15:39:21 +0200
Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> wrote:

> Reported as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/702366
> and http://bugzilla.redhat.com/702354

Well, here's NEWS:

> * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted.  Old programs keep working
>   but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
>   Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
>   The TI-RPC implemtation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
> 
>   Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
>   programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library, the
>   removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers, and the lack of
>   symbols defined in <rpc/netdb.h> when <netdb.h> is installed.
>   Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

The question is: what is TI-RPC and where one finds it?
Is it even packaged in Fedora?

-- Pete


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