forestalling GNU incompatibility - proposal for binary relative dynamic linking

[Rene Rebe]

Hi,

Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> Please back that up with facts, otherwise this claim is completely useless.
> Red Hat glibc is definitely compatible with Fedora one and to my knowledge
> other distributions when applying patches to glibc are just putting in backports
> of glibc TRUNK changes, at least if it involves symbol version changes.
> 
> glibc-2.3.4 has been widely tested and is certainly stable.

When we are at that ;-) Does it include 64bit user-space on sparc64 (did 
anyone ever actually used that)? I ask, because I get some segfaults and 
SIGBUS using glibc-2.3.4 and gcc-3.4.3 ... (still tracking them).

Yours,

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