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

[Jeff Law]

On 01/30/14 09:58, Adam Conrad wrote:
> 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.

That failure to build is due to a code generation error.  If you want to 
ship product with an error that is bad enough that it shows up building 
GCC itself, well, that is ultimately your choice.  I'd personally never 
condone it.

jeff