On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 18:51 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
Time for another PSA...
It appears libevdev 0.6 breaks the library's ABI without bumping the soname (and without an announcement here or anywhere else I can find, but an ABI change without an soname bump is just flat out wrong whether announced or not). 0.6 was sent to Rawhide, F19 and F20 simultaneously.
The ABI change breaks GNOME in F20 and Rawhide (because clutter was using the calls that disappeared in the 0.6 build):
undefined symbol: LIBEVDEV_READ_NORMAL (/lib/libclutter-1.0.so.0) undefined symbol: LIBEVDEV_READ_SYNC (/lib/libclutter-1.0.so.0)
Dec 26 02:02:34 pressanykey gnome-session[1320]: gnome-shell: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libclutter-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: LIBEVDEV_READ_NORMAL
Reported as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046426 .
Rebuilding clutter is not trivial at present, and in fact builds of clutter appear to fail on this same libevdev issue. So right now, GNOME in Rawhide is broken if you install libevdev 0.6, and this monkey doesn't feel comfortable trying to fix it (I don't want to start randomly whacking things in clutter's code to try and make it build against the new libevdev).
Actually, Mamoru Tasaka handily identified the offending upstream commit in the bug report, so I'm sending a build of libevdev with the function removal reverted to Rawhide for now.