From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzJOn-0006ex-PO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:23:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6VJLgJf006749; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:21:42 GMT Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.164]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6VJLfXB031830 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:21:41 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.236] (81.226.250.213) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) (authenticated as u18221075) id 42B94E29006122E9 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:21:43 +0200 Message-ID: <42ED24BB.8030103@telia.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:21:31 +0200 From: Simon Strandman User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: x86_64 optimization patches for glibc. References: <42E258A7.5080501@telia.com> <1122322081.12747.5.camel@cloud.outersquare.org> <42E55ADB.8030201@telia.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a6fa70ce-a5c3-4912-be7e-144751b67863 X-Archives-Hash: 2031f8d61258cbdb493e84d720ba11d5 Duncan skrev: >Simon Strandman posted <42E55ADB.8030201@telia.com>, excerpted below, on >Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:34:19 +0200: > > > >>Done! Bug #100289 >>http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100289 >> >>Tell me if I need to provide any more information. >> >> > >For those following the thread here, but not keeping up with the bug, >testing reveals that at least one app, nano, crashes (when searching), >with the patches applied to glibc, until nano is remerged against the new >glibc. Yes, that means that the issue goes away with a remerge, but there >could be other apps similarly affected. > > But changes to glibc usually breaks stuff and requires recompiling. Remember what happened when glibc 2.3.4.20041102 was marked stable? A lot of people got crashes and problems and needed to recompile or even reinstall. The switch to NPTL only in glibc 2.4 will cause this kind of problems too. So perhaps these patches could be added to the glibc 2.4 snapshots (2.3.5.20050421 and 2.3.5.20050722) and 2.4 when it's released (if they are still relevant by then) because people will have to recompile then anyway. But a USE-flag is a good idea if they are added to a stable version! -- Simon Strandman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list