EPEL Armadillo 4.320.0 update broke gdal and PostGIS

[Susi Lehtola]

On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:17:10 -0600
Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> On 08/08/2014 10:43 AM, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 07:38:21PM +0300, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The latest armadillo update on EPEL broke gdal and PostGIS on
> >> PostgreSQL RPM repository. I tried to rebuild gdal 1.9.2 with new
> >> armadillo, and getting build errors. Any chance to revert this
> >> update?
> >
> > I was asked to push Armadillo 4.x for some group who was using it,
> > and it should be reverse compatible, so I am confused about why you
> > are getting problems.  The rebuild should not have any issue.
> > Could you post a link to the build log so I can decide what the
> > best thing to do here is?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> 
> Just to be explicit - armadillo in EPEL6 was updated from 
> armadillo-3.800.2-1.el6 to armadillo-4.320.0-1.el6 which involves a 
> soname bump and lots of changes:
> 
> http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/armadillo.html
> 
> The project uses major version bumps to indicate API/ABI
> incompatibility:
> 
> http://arma.sourceforge.net/faq.html
> 
> Except for exceptional circumstances this is forbidden in EPEL.


I still don't understand why the Armadillo package ships a library,
since Armadillo is just a C++ template library...
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Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org