Bug 178920

Summary:	dev-python/pyxml has an internal copy of expat 1.x
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Python Gentoo Team <python>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Use system expat

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-17 19:23:57 UTC

As per summary, there's an internal copy of expat 1.x in pyxml's shared
object, and its symbols are not hidden either. Loading in the same process
space both libexpat (2) and python with pyxml will likely cause crashes
not so easy to debug.

Easy solution: hide the symbols.
Proper solution: use the already-installed shared copy of libexpat.

Comment 1 İsmail Dönmez 2007-05-19 14:48:15 UTC

Created attachment 119711 [details, diff]
Use system expat

Comment 2 İsmail Dönmez 2007-05-19 14:48:33 UTC

Attached a patch for latest ebuild to use system expat.

Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-23 21:31:14 UTC

Ismail patch works for me; by the way pyxml already deps on expat.

Comment 4 Ali Polatel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-03 04:32:38 UTC

 0.8.4-r1 is in CVS now which fixes this among with other stuff.
 I'll remove the older version , pyxml-0.8.3, from the tree so didn't fix it.

+*pyxml-0.8.4-r1 (03 Jul 2007)
+
+  03 Jul 2007; Ali Polatel <hawking@gentoo.org> pyxml-0.8.4.ebuild,
+  +pyxml-0.8.4-r1.ebuild:
+  revbump, use system expat (bug 178920, thanks to Ismail "cartman" Donmez),
+  dropped ~ppc-macos keyword, add doc and examples USE flags, add src_test,
+  don't install tests, cosmetics

 Thanks for reporting and thanks for the patch :-)