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Re: gcc 3.2 transition clarification



* Jack Howarth (howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu) wrote:
>    Well actually there is an unrelated reason to rebuild 
> everything with gcc 3.2. Glibc 2.3 now supports prelinking
> of binaries and shared libs. However they have to be built
> using a recent enough binutils. We still have a number of
> packages in sid that haven't been rebuilt in the last year
> so they are unprelinkable. A bulk rebuild would clear that
> up.

File wishlist bugs against those packages which don't support prelinking
yet and perhaps the maintainers will update them.  A bulk rebuild is a
bad idea in general.

	Stephen

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