On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 04:06:22PM +0100, Björn Ketelaars wrote:
> On Sun 11/02/2018 11:17, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:47:16AM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:17:40AM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Feb 11 2018, Landry Breuil <lan...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> > > > >> > > Of the 23 victims of devel/json-c I only tested net/isc-bind
> > > > >> > > (rndc-confgen to be more precise), which seems to work ok. It 
> > > > >> > > would be
> > > > >> > > great if more people could check if this update works for them.
> > > > >> > 
> > > > >> > I suppose that means "i've built all of them but only 
> > > > >> > runtime-tested
> > > > >> > bind", right ? :)
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> ...not exactly. Let me rephrase the last bit:
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> I only built tested 2 victims, and runtime tested isc-bind.
> > > > >
> > > > > Right. In the past json-c has proven itself "interesting" when 
> > > > > upgrading
> > > > > it, so i'll put this diff in my next bulk along cmake stuff.
> > > > 
> > > > I have tried an upgrade to the 0.13 release, some of the structures are
> > > > made opaque, which either breaks consumers or forces them to implement
> > > > ugly hacks.  So unless I missed something, upgrading to 0.13 is not
> > > > possible.
> > > 
> > > It is definitely possible, json-c fucks up headers/structs at every
> > > upgrade, we're used to it.
> > > 
> > > FreeBSD upgraded it already, cf
> > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224675 &
> > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=457965
> > > so the way is paved. Just need to cherrypick fixes/hacks there and
> > > there. Locally, i already know gdal and postgis fail to build with
> > > json-c 0.13.
> > > 
> > 
> > FreeBSD decided to keep installing the private header to fix things,
> > Cf
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/json-c/Makefile?r1=457965&r2=457964&pathrev=457965
> > 
> > An option is to do the same - Granted, this is not the clean way to go,
> > and hopefully over time consumers will stop including it directly. The
> > other options is to look at consumers and backport/cherrypick fixes.
> > 
> > For example gdal was properly fixed in
> > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/277, postgis in
> > https://github.com/postgis/postgis/pull/173 and both stopped poking at
> > internal struct members.
> > 
> > Landry
> 
> I prefer fixing the consumers, as their upcoming releases support
> building with json-c 0.13. I have created diffs for:
> 
> geo/gdal              https://arcfour.nl/H8QhDVZ6Kv
> geo/postgis           https://arcfour.nl/v2J0dq9V68

I've already done those and was about to commit them (tested with json-c
0.12 and 0.13), sorry for duplicating work.

> sysutils/syslog-ng    https://arcfour.nl/hZGVidSDhy

That one looks okay to me.

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