glibc-2.19 - two weeks to go!

[Allan McRae]

Hi all,

glibc-2.19 is scheduled to be released in two weeks today.  So lets have
a look at the current status.

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.19

Blockers/desirables:
 - all features listed in the wiki have been either implemented or
   delayed until 2.20
 - there are still a few bugs with the 2.19 milestone set [1] .

Is BZ#12683 (Race conditions in pthread cancellation) still targeted at
2.19?  The Aarch64 issue has a patch submitted and I'm not sure what is
happening with the ppc math issues (or whether they were concluded to be
gcc bugs). If there is anything else that needs fixed for 2.19, either
add it to the wiki or open a bug with 2.19 milestone so it is easy to
keep track of.


The following machines have not had status information added:
  x86 GNU/Hurd
  x32
  PowerPC (soft-float)
  PowerPC (hard-float)
  PowerPC64
  sparc
  sparc64
  ARM
  MIPS
  Alpha
  SH
  Microblaze
  AArch64
  HP-PARISC
  m68k
(although MIPS and PowerPC (soft-float) have had their failures noted in
the known issues section)

Other testing:
  - LSB test status - TODO
  - ABI Compatibility status - TODO (Note looks fine for x86 [2])
  - gnulib testsuite - no new failures on my x86_64 system.


[1]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=SUSPENDED&bug_status=WAITING&bug_status=REOPENED&f1=target_milestone&list_id=13039&o1=equals&product=glibc&query_format=advanced&v1=2.19

[2] http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/glibc.html


Cheers,
Allan