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

Jeff Law law@redhat.com
Thu Jan 30 17:40:00 GMT 2014


On 01/30/14 09:10, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
> Doing a backport to 2.17 was a bad choice - and not telling us here
> earlier as well.
Agreed, but it is what it is.

>
> So, moving forward: Will there no more such breakages and can
> distributions rely on a stable API of the released glibc 2.19 on
> PowerPC64 Little Endian the same way that x86 and x86-64 users can rely
> on it? Meaning: Any binary build against 2.19 will work with future
> versions.
I don't see any reason why ppc64-le would be any different than other 
architectures in this regard.  So, yes, agreed.


Jeff



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