Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

[Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>]

On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:33:09 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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.

OK here on ~amd64, but you got me worried so I emerged m4 to check 
and that went OK too.

-- 
Peter
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