On Monday, 06 August 2018 at 18:29, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
On Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:30:02 +0200, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 13:15 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > That confirms the whole OS "Checked Build" variant would solve even
this
> > problem.
>
> Jan: In my view, it's not a problem, it's a feature. An OS-wide
> change wouldn't turn on "--with-pydebug" for Python, unless it was
> directly coded into the specfile.
Packages would be recommended to turn on such flags for that variant of OS,
such as for example for glib2:
--enable-debug --enable-gc-friendly --disable-mem-pools
etc.
At least this is what IIUC Microsoft does for their Checked Build.
> The change to the ABI is due to two new fields with the base struct for
> python objects.
That is not a problem for a Checked Build OS as all the packages are compiled
for the different ABI.
If there is a clear packaging guideline and a macro framework in-place
i.e.:
%bcond_with checked_build
[...]
%configure
[...]
%if %{with checked_build}
--enable-debug --enable-gc-friendly --disable-mem-pools
%endif
Or even just:
%global checked_build_configure_opts --enable-debug --enable-gc-friendly
--disable-mem-pools
[...]
%configure_checked (which would do something like the above)
then all packages that support this can be built twice, automatically.
There should probably be some special generated Provides and Requires,
too, I guess.
It would still require significant effort to support this in koji and
composes. I'm not sure how useful that would be in general, but you're
welcome to propose a system-wide change and work on this.
Regards,
Dominik
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