Monday Patch Queue Review update (2025-07-28)

[Carlos O'Donell]

Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update

Meeting: 2025-07-28 @ 0900h EST5EDT

Video/Audio: https://bbb.linuxfoundation.org/room/adm-alk-1uu-7fu

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

  * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 648 patches.
  * Reviewing the list of release blockers for glibc 2.42 going out the door.
  * Discussion this morning has been around bug 33224.
  * Florian has posted patch to resolve 33224.
  * elf: Compile _dl_debug_state separately (bug 33224) (Florian)
   * Confirmed by Andreas that this works.
   * Carlos: Can we disable probes in gdb to smoke test it?
   * Noted gdb maintenance ignore-probes as a test mechanism.
   * Noted we should add a new test post-release.
   * Should get this change included ASAP.
  * Andreas: Two bash-isms that crept into configure.
  * configure.ac: fix bashisms in SFrame checks (Sam)
   * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval.
  * Discussed the requirement for /bin/bash to build and test glibc.
   * Andreas: Resolve after release by adding it to install.texi.
  * Andreas: Sachin's patch touches generated files.
   * Adhemerval: I can send an update with the proper fix.
   * Adhemerval: I will send a patch to properly fix this.
   * Should be built using the system compiler.
   * https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2025-July/168975.html
   * Carlos: I'll review this ASAP so we can green light the release.
  * Release checklist is at 3 items needing fixing:
   * Configure bashism.
   * gdb breakage with inlining.
   * XFAIL generation for math.
  * Ending meeting early to review items for release.

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Cheers,
Carlos.