[drepper@redhat.com: first test release for glibc 2.3 (2.2.91)]
Speak of the devil. I didn't realize it was quite this imminent...
there's a comment on libc-alpha that the release defaults to pentium4
on i386, so be careful.
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 05:36:56 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: first test release for glibc 2.3 (2.2.91)
To: libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
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I've uploaded
glibc-2.2.91.tar.bz2
glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.91.tar.bz2
to
sources.redhat.com:/sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/glibc/snapshots
These files contain the first test release for glibc 2.3. There are no
diffs as they would be unreasonably large. I also stopped uploading
gzip-compressed files. Let's save bandwidth.
The news for this release can be read in the NEWS file. It's mainly a
release to improve performance.
To build glibc 2.2.91 you have to use gcc 3.2 and very recent, on some
platforms even patched, binutils. Releases build in HJ Lu's 2.13.90.0.2
release (or latter) seem to work. Part of what this test release should
achieve is to find out which tools work. Do not use gcc 3.3 and no
earlier binutils versions.
When compiling a few problems might pop up. I had problems in the elf
subdir when compiling using -j4 and higher. A stamps file is reported
missing. In this case just restart the build. Other problems I saw are
random failures in the math code. But only on P4 sytems. I haven't yet
investigated this thoroughly. On Alpha there might be a build problem
right now. We'll have a patch soon and will create a new test release.
Everybody who builds this release is asked to drop a note with the
results and the tools used. Please send the mail to
libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
Don't file the reports in the gnats system.
We know this release has some rough edges when it comes to building it
but the code should be reasonable stable and we should have reached the
end of all improvement work. The faster and the more feddback we get
the faster we can make a stable release.
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