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Re: [PATCH] change GLIBC PPC64/ELF2 ABI default to 2.17
- From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:40:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] change GLIBC PPC64/ELF2 ABI default to 2.17
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On 01/30/14 09:10, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Doing a backport to 2.17 was a bad choice - and not telling us here
earlier as well.
Agreed, but it is what it is.
So, moving forward: Will there no more such breakages and can
distributions rely on a stable API of the released glibc 2.19 on
PowerPC64 Little Endian the same way that x86 and x86-64 users can rely
on it? Meaning: Any binary build against 2.19 will work with future
versions.
I don't see any reason why ppc64-le would be any different than other
architectures in this regard. So, yes, agreed.
Jeff