[Ltrace-devel] New ltrace release soon?

Petr Machata pmachata at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 18:50:35 UTC 2015


2015-09-11 5:33 GMT+02:00 Randy MacLeod <rwmacleod at gmail.com>:
> It has been some time since ltrace-0.73 was released:
>
> commit 37ecc41b58be3dbdd79592a76e331b5b371e4f81
> Author: Oliver Spornitz <ospornit at rz-online.de>
> Date:   Sun Sep 15 12:42:20 2013 +0200
>
>     bump version to 0.7.3
>
> Any plans for another release this fall? I'm interested for
> meta-openembedded and while we can track any commit
> in the git repo and we can work with that, it's nicer to have
> an official release.

I should have made 0.8 before leaving Red Hat.  But there was a bunch
of work elsewhere and I just didn't have the cycles.  Maybe when my
current job gets boring I'll have cycles to get back to ltrace again,
but that's a good couple months away at least.

Unfortunately, it's not just "make dist".  We support a bunch of
uncommon architectures (IA64, s390 31/64, ARM, Aarch64, about 17
million PowerPC ABIs, MIPS, and likely others).  Even getting hands on
all this iron is a challenge (though I think GCC compile farm might be
willing to have us).  Then one has to test all the weird combinations
(libunwind/libdw/nothing, debuginfo/nothing, all the 32/64
interactions).  There will be inevitable bugs that need to be fixed ad
hoc...  All in all it could be a good couple of weekends to brew.  So,
yeah.

Thanks,
Petr



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