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


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> The proposed change is contrary to longstanding explicit policy.  But so is
> that status quo that Adam is asking to maintain.  IMHO there were very good
> reasons we had that policy, and one of those was keeping the libc community
> out of bicker wars between distributions that chomped at the bit and
> released something before it was declared official by the community.
>
> I think we should just stick to the policy, so it's GLIBC_2.19 because
> that's the first glibc release that will support the configuration.  Adam
> and Steven both deserve what they get.  The policy was established and they
> ignored it when they started distributing binaries for a glibc ABI that was
> never part of an actual glibc release.  That's the only way to be fair to
> everyone (by making nobody happy).
>
> But at the end of the day, these things have to be in the hands of the
> machine maintainers.  Steven is one of the powerpc maintainers and Adam is
> not.  Steven has an obligation to do what is right and proper as a GNU
> maintainer concerned with all users and the maintenance burdens on the
> project, independent of his role at IBM and his concern with users of IBM's
> products.  But I can't make that judgement about powerpc users at large.

FWIW, I had to do the same for x32. My initial x32 port was for
glibc 2.14.  After x32 was checked into glibc 2.16, I had to recompile
all my x32 binaries to get the proper symbol version.  It was a pain.
But I survived it.

-- 
H.J.


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