[PATCH] change GLIBC PPC64/ELF2 ABI default to 2.17

[Jeff Law]

On 01/30/14 02:27, Adam Conrad wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:56:47AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>
>> That has risks that simply turning the crank on a rebuild doesn't.
>> The hack also has no benefit, while turning the crank probably
>> fixes bugs you didn't know you had (with a gcc update first
>> obviously).
>
> This is the second time someone's hinted that "hey, you might want to
> rebuild anyway, due to unspecified GCC changes".  Pretty sure that if
> you want to use that as an argument for rebuilding the world, a pointer
> to these supposed issues would help.
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.



Jeff