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Re: glibc 2.2.4pre2


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> I've uploaded the files
> 
>   glibc-2.2.4pre2.tar.bz2                   (also .gz)
>   glibc-2.2.4pre1-2.2.4pre2.diff.bz2        (also .gz)
>   glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.4pre2.tar.bz2      (also .gz)
> 
> to
> 
>   ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/releases
>
>
> This is the second test release for glibc 2.2.4 and a release
> candidate.  Unless some bigger problems pop up there will be no
> further test release.  I'm pretty pleased with the current quality.

Thanks!

> The changes for this release mainly include bug fixes.  The only
> extensions are several new locales, some iconv modules needed for
> them, and some changes to localedef which improve it's capability of
> handling complex LC_COLLATE specifications.
> 
> Several bug fixes are in the thread-safety area of libio.  So please
> test this.
> 
> The rest of the patch (and a large part) is the updated manual.
> 
> 
> Please give it a try.  The turn-out of the 2.2.4pre1 release was again
> overwhelming: 3 people reported their results.  Wow, the demographics
> will definitely allow me to make assumptions about the stability.

Just for the record: I'm currently testing on i686 and will report any
problems - and I test regularly on other platforms.

> All reports should be send to libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com.
> 
> [And no: you cannot use gcc3 to compile this glibc release.]

Shouldn't we add patch for configure to check for GCC 3.0 and remove
it as soon as the patches go in?

Andreas
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