[gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet?

I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and 
downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only comment I can find at 
this early stage is flameeye's blog, and this makes me quadruple nervous:




And if you say that “the new GLIBC works for me”, are you saying that the 
package itself builds or if it’s actually integrated correctly? Because, you 
know, I used to rebuild the whole system whenever I made a change to basic 
system packages when I maintained Gentoo/FreeBSD, and saying that it’s ready 
for ~arch when you haven’t even rebuilt the system (and you haven’t, or you 
would have noticed that m4 was broken) is definitely something I’d define as 
reckless and I’d venture to say you’re not good material to work on the 
quality assurance status.

“correctness” in the case of the system C library would be “it a t least 
leaves the system set building and running”; glibc 2.12 does not work this 
way.

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