glibc 2.19 status?

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Fri Jan 31 08:36:00 GMT 2014


"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:

> * In the absence of consensus from the people building distributions with 
> the PPC64 LE port, change the symbol version to the logically correct 
> GLIBC_2.19, and get ABI test baselines checked in (even if the sysdeps 
> structure is ugly, which I think was the reason they weren't added 
> originally) to confirm the ABI in use.  It's perfectly possible to build 
> from 2.17 or 2.18 sources with a GLIBC_2.19 symbol version; you might need 
> to backport the additions of new versions to Versions.def.

This is also my favorite solution.  Even though it requires a
rebootstrap-the-world for everyone, it is the most sane one.

Andreas.

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