From 4db7d408944572e12af0bc451d946df00b1eff17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Wojtulewicz Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:56:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add NEWS entry about deprecation of --with-binpac and --with-bifcl --- NEWS | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 79ed2e0b1a..fbff6b2b6c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ Breaking Changes - The ``IsPacketSource()`` method on ``IOSource`` was removed. It was unused and incorrectly returned ``false`` on all packet sources. +- The ``--with-binpac`` and ``--with-bifcl`` arguments for ``configure`` are now + deprecated. Both arguments have for a long time just used the internal version of the + tooling even if something was passed, so they were mostly useless. This may cause + breakage of cross-compiling, where the ``binpac`` and ``bifcl`` tooling needs to be run + on the host machine. We haven't heard from anyone that this is the case with the + arguments in their currently-broken state. + New Functionality ----------------- @@ -178,6 +185,10 @@ Removed Functionality BIND library from our CMake setup in the v7.2 release, but this non-functional argument was left behind. +- The ``--disable-archiver`` argument for ``configure`` was removed. This was deprecated + and scheduled to be removed in v7.1, but we apparently missed it during the cleanup for + that release. + Deprecated Functionality ------------------------