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

[Roland McGrath]

> The problem with that policy is that it isn't what is best for our users,
> and I'm talking with both FSF and Red Hat hats on.

I don't buy this argument at all.  Though I don't doubt your intentions to
consider it objectively, I think your perception is colored by your
personal involvement with distro ports based on unreleased glibc code.

But I think most everyone who has expressed any opinions is biased in a
similar fashion, so it's no surprise that I'm alone in taking the pure
position that is concerned only with the long-term effects on all the users
rather than some myopic concern with the surely tiny number of early users
of hardware that does not yet exist.

> The bickering is reduced to: Get it released upstream first.

This I agree with wholeheartedly.  Red Hat, IBM, and whoever else gave
users a distribution based on unreleased glibc code without also giving
them the clear understanding that no binaries built from such a
distribution would be usable in the long run did a disservice to their
users.  It's a real shame if the GNU Project does an (albeit milder)
disservice to all the future users just to mitigate the harm already done
by these for-profit actors who knowingly flouted established glibc policy.


Thanks,
Roland