Re: glibc 2.1 in potato
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 02:15:50PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
> Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> > Ben> I have a nice Debian Ultra Sparc 1 box setup now and was
> > Ben> going to compile glibc 2.1.1-0.1 (from potato). Are we ready
> > Ben> to make this upgrade in the dist yet? If so I can NMU it
> > Ben> afterwards.
> >
> > Given that we've been running pre2.1 glibc forever, why not?
>
> I was wondering if anybody was going to do this. A few caveats:
>
> Install the latest sparc egcs first (2.91.60-5 works fine - i ).
> Otherwise the "crypt()" functions will be broken. (The test case is
> attached. Not that gcc is still broken, but glibc uses egcs.)
>
> After you compile and install glibc, compile and install the latest
> egcs from potato. (This will probably entail compiling and installing
> the latest dejagnu from experimental - this might not be 100%
> necessary if they didn't add any versioned symbols since 2.0.105.)
>
> Then test everything. Make sure apt and dselect work (good tests of
> C++ stuff). Note that compatibility isn't guaranteed between 2.1
> betas and 2.1, but I think 2.0.105 is late enough to be fully
> compatible.
Noted.
> If you want, I can take care of compiling this. (I did it once about
> a month ago, but that was with an older, broken version of egcc, so
> crypt didn't work and, hence, I didn't upload anything.)
It's fine, I'll get it uploaded tonight.
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