Re: glibc 2.3 migration plans
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 08:21:17PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:31:13PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > Ben,
> > Well on ppc we will have one specific requirement. All builds will
> > have to be done on binutils 2.13.90.0.6 or greater. This is because
> > in binutils 2.13.90.0.5 a glitch in how *r_offset was set was corrected
> > (now its always zero) that prevented prelink from unprelinking back to
> > the original binaries. This was because the value of *r_offset was set
> > in an unpredictable manner before. The need for binutils 2.13.90.0.6
> > is because of a bug that caused libraries to be created by ld which
> > were not properly -zcombreloc and caused prelink to complain. This
> > fix is multi-arch so while we don't know for sure if it effected non-ppc
> > arches before 2.13.90.0.6, it certainly can't now.
>
> Let me be clear: that is a requirement for _prelink_, not for glibc.
> Glibc should be fine with our current binutils packages. So this does
> not need to be done right away.
I think the argument was that if half the dist is going to be rebuilt
when gcc-3.2/glibc-2.3 releases, we might as well put ppc in a position
to work well with it at the same time.
If it doesn't cause extra delay, I can't see a problem with it.
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