Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

[Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>]

I have glibc-2.12.1 running on two ~x86 systems with no problems so far.

> Hi,
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> Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet?
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> 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:
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> 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.