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Re: glibc 2.2.4pre2
- To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.2.4pre2
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 10:19:33 +0200
- Cc: GNU libc testers <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <m3u1znm0g0.fsf@otr.mynet>
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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