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

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Thu Jan 30 17:27:00 GMT 2014


Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net> writes:

> 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.

Also, there's a big difference between a full rebuild (which is a
totally automatic procedure) and a full rebootstrap (which requires a
lot of manual work and/or workarounds).

Andreas.

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