first test release for glibc 2.3 (2.2.91)

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

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I've uploaded

  glibc-2.2.91.tar.bz2
  glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.91.tar.bz2

to

  sources.redhat.com:/sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/glibc/snapshots

These files contain the first test release for glibc 2.3.  There are no 
diffs as they would be unreasonably large.  I also stopped uploading 
gzip-compressed files.  Let's save bandwidth.


The news for this release can be read in the NEWS file.  It's mainly a 
release to improve performance.

To build glibc 2.2.91 you have to use gcc 3.2 and very recent, on some 
platforms even patched, binutils.  Releases build in HJ Lu's 2.13.90.0.2 
release (or latter) seem to work.  Part of what this test release should 
achieve is to find out which tools work.  Do not use gcc 3.3 and no 
earlier binutils versions.

When compiling a few problems might pop up.  I had problems in the elf 
subdir when compiling using -j4 and higher.  A stamps file is reported 
missing.  In this case just restart the build.  Other problems I saw are 
random failures in the math code.  But only on P4 sytems.  I haven't yet 
investigated this thoroughly.  On Alpha there might be a build problem 
right now.  We'll have a patch soon and will create a new test release.


Everybody who builds this release is asked to drop a note with the 
results and the tools used.  Please send the mail to

  libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com

Don't file the reports in the gnats system.

We know this release has some rough edges when it comes to building it 
but the code should be reasonable stable and we should have reached the 
end of all improvement work.  The faster and the more feddback we get 
the faster we can make a stable  release.

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