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authorPetr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>2020-07-13 19:36:35 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2020-07-13 19:36:35 +0200
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Remove --enable-obsolete-rpc configure flag
Sun RPC was removed from glibc. This includes rpcgen program, librpcsvc,
and Sun RPC headers. Also test for bug #20790 was removed
(test for rpcgen).

Backward compatibility for old programs is kept only for architectures
and ABIs that have been added in or before version 2.28.

libtirpc is mature enough, librpcsvc and rpcgen are provided in
rpcsvc-proto project.

NOTE: libnsl code depends on Sun RPC (installed libnsl headers use
installed Sun RPC headers), thus --enable-obsolete-rpc was a dependency
for --enable-obsolete-nsl (removed in a previous commit).

The arc ABI list file has to be updated because the port was added
with the sunrpc symbols

Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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@@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ Major new features:
 
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
+* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc.  Sun RPC is removed
+  from glibc.  This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
+  RPC header files.  Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
+  only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
+  glibc 2.31.  New programs need to use TI-RPC
+  <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
+  rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
+
 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl.  libnsl is only built
   as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
   and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't