From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACED13877A for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:16:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5113EE0960; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B863E0921 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D17634029C for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:16:51 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] heads up: glibc-2.20 will require >=linux-2.6.32 Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 09:16:52 -0400 Message-ID: <1839476.CY3ocDWS18@vapier> Organization: wh0rd.org User-Agent: KMail/4.13.1 (Linux/3.14.2; KDE/4.13.1; x86_64; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart46916874.RSU5NOyLgY"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ad6b2b50-7ea4-4cbf-86b7-3eddadbcf811 X-Archives-Hash: 557fee45b2103b48c80c3e5a7fa2edd4 --nextPart46916874.RSU5NOyLgY Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" upstream glibc has dropped support for older Linux kernels. your choic= es: - upgrade your kernel - switch to a different C library - stick with glibc-2.19 for a while be warned though there are no plans atm to backport things to glibc-2.1= 9. =20 this includes security fixes, but more importantly as time moves on, ma= king=20 newer gcc versions sanely compile glibc. we've kept older glibc versio= ns=20 around to be nice, and on a part time basis for cross-compiling, but no= ne of=20 those are given priority. i.e. fixes come as people feel like doing th= em. certainly once glibc-2.20+ goes stable, there is no expectation let alo= ne=20 requirement that packages in the tree be kept working with older glibc=20= versions. the maintenance cost there is unreasonable. i guess if you're stuck on old crap, now would be a good time to start=20= preparing to unstick your crap. glibc-2.20 will most likely be in ~arc= h in=20 the next 6 months. =2Dmike --nextPart46916874.RSU5NOyLgY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJT3jZFAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBiP4QAJNp1YE1gSFF71aXSSW2jPHk bYipRtfTOZomJGG5C8yLKriFG1EU1A02a9OMAC9a4nWeISacaysZ84pv6sSO0eA3 aKK33xbxHJz7D8oI19n3UAPoR3TPQ80MNwY2ukn+WlP4ngWw/8JaA5pEVAFD6h0k mCsgRDNMCA5+51svxN9vkgJsLSzrqlkw5/JSfx0qg6F2vzxxj8Ixj9e+SlC46H/0 NvBrg/Q8BNobtZ8djLzD4wAOrwgpvTBA+1nxWK37RV/RdjYHzaQfdbLH+O7LPvrP HUcXowAd3SfkiDIKcCNV4t1kupAkdnpwebbILECZ+UJbmOIUPjQ7rqghMYyJDcOM tuwUcnGCNzx6sC3NIORau4ajOTYVoUVd5yTHsal9ZbGoKET8m8Oj15O+ClswjUDL mJkmEekIy9vCeu7qM6E3BJMjnXciCsQapESWMwJThyCPGIWfPt6T68jrq9PWXCcB oE2yv2rYmxGAeKXFu9XoxNUfJIU0qNL1YNVidg3YWpwz8DWq/C2gJC7LWiUvkU83 eEryOv3H7RT67VjmrhKtS7X38+9TXMf7idLQeLw+AFMJVO3YZ5Z2ie1SVJpom2QX mqgoKLUiEmLDE8lRDI96SzgTXr0vunrojVazGx91DcVxB0afBpo+Cb76K+kYcqXu wirTsNlhJs5OIZTxrTYy =I0Yy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart46916874.RSU5NOyLgY--