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

[Jeff Law]

On 01/30/14 20:55, Adam Conrad wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:10:24AM -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
>>
>> Carlos and his team have a set of constraints they have to work
>> within.  Re-versioning the symbols or using a newer glibc do not fit
>> those constraints.
>
> I'm going to go ahead and point out the obvious here.  It's pretty
> arrogant to suggest that Carlos is the only person who has any imposed
> constraints, and that the rest of us should all have to live with his.
I certainly didn't say that and I certainly wasn't implying that others 
don't have their own constraints they have to work within.  I merely 
stated that Carlos & his team have a set of constraints.

>
> I absolutely understand why you might have frozen on a specific glibc
> version for your upcoming release, and why it would be (I agree) awful
> to have it mismatched between architectures.
>
> None of that has anything to do with the symbol versions, however, or
> the failure to participate in the conversation a couple of months ago.
It certainly does impact symbol versioning.  As to the conversation or 
lack of participation by Red Hat  a few months ago, I can't really 
comment on that other than to say it wasn't something on *my* radar at 
the time and thus *I* didn't even notice the thread.

>
> You can ship your 2.17 (which has a ton of stuff backported from 2.19
> for powerpc64le) and version all the symbols @2.18.  There's exactly
> zero reason why this can't be done.  If there's a management constraint
> preventing this, I'd like to humbly suggest that your management is
> wrong.
Management may be wrong, but that's irrelevant.  The constraints on 
Carlos and his team are what they are.

Jeff