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 1OlIvF-0002K0-DD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:57:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEB97E0853; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (newton.gmurray.org.uk [81.2.114.237]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C798E0853 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7H9uvNA018593 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:56:57 +0100 X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.1.3 newton.gmurray.org.uk o7H9uvNA018593 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmurray.org.uk; s=in200703; t=1282039017; bh=x/vRzKN4uMRhD3PSoK0gTiD4ssjU9JkoC/wVB6Z+3VY=; l=1298; h=From:To:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=f9Ciiy7sZUnEqF3rHPze6/lEQvjlwtRRirjo6uxiYf3y913MfU/OqF03rDBPY9dNs kuetGADjcKfvOTtbMKIUqXtSeBdv4g2TlOU+MqYhC+3I+xHKM8E1ywsFGVThUYXeJr qkf66l3QB4v+A2xw30ttn3xqHvFRgLi5mkS+OYVk= Received: (from graham@localhost) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o7H9uvnB018592; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:56:57 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: newton.gmurray.org.uk: graham set sender to graham@gmurray.org.uk using -f From: Graham Murray To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1 References: <201008171033.09425.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:56:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <201008171033.09425.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (Alan McKinnon's message of "Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:33:09 +0200") Message-ID: <87mxsl36l3.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at newton X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 02b80c6c-7595-4ada-a960-f0d861470c78 X-Archives-Hash: 418f9407da06b121d5728ef20cc9caa5 I have glibc-2.12.1 running on two ~x86 systems with no problems so far. > 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=20 > downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only comment I can fin= d at=20 > this early stage is flameeye's blog, and this makes me quadruple nervous: > > > > > And if you say that =E2=80=9Cthe new GLIBC works for me=E2=80=9D, are you= saying that the=20 > package itself builds or if it=E2=80=99s actually integrated correctly? B= ecause, you=20 > know, I used to rebuild the whole system whenever I made a change to basi= c=20 > system packages when I maintained Gentoo/FreeBSD, and saying that it=E2= =80=99s ready=20 > for ~arch when you haven=E2=80=99t even rebuilt the system (and you haven= =E2=80=99t, or you=20 > would have noticed that m4 was broken) is definitely something I=E2=80=99= d define as=20 > reckless and I=E2=80=99d venture to say you=E2=80=99re not good material = to work on the=20 > quality assurance status. > > =E2=80=9Ccorrectness=E2=80=9D in the case of the system C library would b= e =E2=80=9Cit a t least=20 > leaves the system set building and running=E2=80=9D; glibc 2.12 does not = work this=20 > way.