Latest Glibc from CVS has segmentation problems.
Kevin P. Fleming
kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com
Mon Mar 8 03:11:00 GMT 2004
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> It seems that such reports of errors and omissions in INSTALL are
> no longer welcome. In fact, I almost wonder if the user community
> would be better served by replacing the entire contents of INSTALL
> with "Don't", possibly followed by "And if you absolutely must,
> copy what the distribution makers do."
>
> They are quite welcome, when someone sends a patch for them, not when
> someone bitches about it without doing any work. Nobody has even
> tried to update the INSTALL here, or actually suggested improvements
> for it.
This list can be a black hole for patches. I have twice posted a
correctly formatted patch, against CVS glibc, with a properly formatted
ChangeLog entry, to fix a very obvious set of errors in a glibc
testcase. This patch did not introduce new functionality, and did not
change any functionality that was not obviously broken, because this
testcase has a dozen or more sub-tests, and the older ones work the
correct way while the newer ones do not. This was most likely caused by
a simple cut-and-paste error that was never corrected.
The first time I sent the patch, on 2004-01-27, no response was
forthcoming. I sent it again on 2004-02-09, and this time Roland
accepted it and committed, although silently :-) So in spite of all this
discussion, properly constructed patches that fix actual problems _do_
get accepted. There is a hurdle to get over in that you have to make
sure you conform to the not-at-all-documented requirements for patch
submission, but lurking on this list for a while will allow you to learn
what those requirements are. I learned because my first attempts at
solving the problem were in entirely the wrong direction, and once I
found the correct direction another problem surfaced. This is the
problem whose patch was actually accepted (after Uli correctly rejected
the first one).
Possibly a helpful solution to this problem would be for Uli and the
others to appoint one or more "lieutenants" (as Linus Torvalds has done)
to deal with the people who are working below the maintainers' level.
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