From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SbylN-0008Qx-Rb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:45:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8F2DE0268; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 18:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5115CE02CB for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 18:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2FF91B4029; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 18:44:45 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] x32 release candidate Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 14:44:13 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.4.0; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201109151534.07155.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201109151534.07155.vapier@gentoo.org> 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="nextPart2204925.CoHxmWVF4y"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201206051445.07897.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5b09c638-41bd-42ac-ab66-4d95497ca93b X-Archives-Hash: 8ecc71e69a11ae39cd16f21bc553341b --nextPart2204925.CoHxmWVF4y Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i'm pleased to announce the initial x32 release candidate: http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/x32/stage3-amd64-x32-20120605.tar.xz the x32 ABI is the default one, and includes x86/amd64 ABIs. it is not usi= ng=20 /lib32/ (and /lib is not a symlink) like our existing amd64 multilib as tha= t=20 is being phased out, and the x32 port allows me to do a clean break. i call this a release candidate as it is using glibc-2.15 with backported=20 patches. the ABI however should be the same as glibc-2.16, so hopefully th= e=20 upgrade will go smooth. but i don't want to make an official release on th= e=20 chance that things aren't smooth, so this is a release candidate. once glibc-2.16 is released upstream, we should have x32 stages released=20 alongside the existing x86/amd64 stages. caveats: - you have to be running linux-3.4+ with the x32 ABI enabled in your config - the x32 profile has marked toolchain packages stable ahead of other arch= es: - linux-headers-3.4 - binutils-2.22 - glibc-2.15 (and will have stable glibc-2.16) - gcc-4.7.0 - strace-4.7 - gdb-7.4.1 - gdb will probably be flaky, but the new gdb-7.5 release should address t= hat so if you try running stable amd64, you will hit some failures unrelated to= =20 x32, but related to the newer toolchain packages. this will get better ove= r=20 time as other packages go stable, and i'll be trying to push at least=20 binutils/linux-headers stable soonish. for the adventurous souls, please review the existing x32 tracker bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3Dx32 and file new bugs for packages you come across that aren't yet known more reading: https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/ =2Dmike --nextPart2204925.CoHxmWVF4y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPzlOzAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBzW0P/2uUFiL0u1yNavN4CREuYYpc RSSkxF5x/uNciBgb23cOEcai57iIftt80n2fJzQqF6foV+awrLZ/9+uHtK0tTdJ5 Om8adaSuGrBxylQDVyjfoGGxJwySwHQgsRPR9Hdgb10LBJFpauMz5Bl+3c4vA7xS ukqEcft2rNdnp3eLmdeoNQxYwR+nCKcPGFIiFPN4KqmHCW6BB94fiHGN8q+YeC+K qUIqmgwLBiR46Loy8Gs0wC17IKgG0gjiHbfUx1o633fjt2bT5F+j7kraMul8+5LJ Gk8tHKbIi1pD8pvsgqPpjyESggFhdoHflaAWR8pMALdVW88VR/32/bRH+uuJ8yuK rfYicL0H5PRlPloMMi3WmKFiBtLKPvq/oFX2yLUMQmP8O1pN8pQOoWMrUd56B+z7 IjH1/HPpS2Bk4UzRogpiv+DO8I8B+3qcGZDobLa8NlRYxdRrcE+S0wFsm/3dBSAp OY2G/p2XcDMVpxisYS+sJtNWVRT9WFJxKvm8LqPlH1XgnHZoX/VfqX3s1dL0iM8r Br0ZOUreN55QTNHLg58wsHQmB8xNahQRCocYA1wZfsIRY6IuTkpPDlMB1bTZ+XEM IR05X3TSNLa+h/F0K80ou9rt24RZmajTuXFCRpqNNgM2KnOelz9y7VHG+HU3Y3e9 9lVUqMcIzFlPTfTFYxtY =WlMv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2204925.CoHxmWVF4y--