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Re: [PATCH] change GLIBC PPC64/ELF2 ABI default to 2.17
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3 dot net>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, munroesj at us dot ibm dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:26:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] change GLIBC PPC64/ELF2 ABI default to 2.17
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Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 09:47:39AM -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
>>
>> I figured you or your team would be monitoring the upstream lists
>> for this stuff. I'm thinking specifically about the fixes for GCC
>> BZ 59909 which fixes a power8 bootstrap failure. The patch for that
>> was checked in about a week ago.
>
> A failure to build GCC generally doesn't trigger a need to rebuild
> the thousands of packages built WITH GCC.
Also, there's a big difference between a full rebuild (which is a
totally automatic procedure) and a full rebootstrap (which requires a
lot of manual work and/or workarounds).
Andreas.
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