Re: Several glibc problems...
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:51:04PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:09:38PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > 3. kernel headers
> >
> > The sparc ports, along with several other of the ports (maybe all?) are
> > using kernels from the 2.1 development tree. As a result they are also
> > using 2.1 glibc pre-releases. The upstream maintainers of glibc are also
> > mostly working with the 2.1 kernels in their development, so this is a
> > reasonable thing to do. For the intel release, however, we have never used
> > a "development" kernel in a release, so from my position, this transition
> > is ... well, difficult.
>
> PowerPC certainly is; a lot of the other ports have a choice between a
> lightly patched 2.1.x and a very heavily patched 2.0.x kernel. glibc
> 2.1 however is much pickier. Does a glibc compiled on 2.1.x headers
> run on 2.0.3x?
Sure it does. We use a glibc2.0.100 compiled with kernel-headers
2.1.125 on a 2.0.35 sparc kernel (ok, it's a 2.0.35 kernel with a 2MB
sparc patch ;-)
It needed some tweaking on sparc but it should be usable out of the
box on i386 because the glibc developers use mostly i386 for
development and testing.
> > Should I target such glibc packages for experimental only?
>
> For x86...probably, yes. Be sure to coordinate with the various people
> doing libstdc++ uploads, so that we can have one in experimental linked
> to this libc. The transition, while not as bad as libc5->libc6, is a
> big one; binaries compiled on glibc 2.1 will not run on 2.0 for many
> more reasons than compiler mismatches.
Right.
>
>
> On a vaguely related note, Dale, have you considered Joel Klecker's
> glibc-maint proposal? Asking one man to shoulder the burden for all
> ports doesn't make a great deal of sense, IMO.
Ah, I've got to answer that email, too. I forgot it, sorry :-/
Greetings,
Christian
--
Christian Meder, email: meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de
What's the railroad to me ?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows,
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
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