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Re: glibc 2.19 status?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <cltang at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:36:19 +0100
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.19 status?
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"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> * In the absence of consensus from the people building distributions with
> the PPC64 LE port, change the symbol version to the logically correct
> GLIBC_2.19, and get ABI test baselines checked in (even if the sysdeps
> structure is ugly, which I think was the reason they weren't added
> originally) to confirm the ABI in use. It's perfectly possible to build
> from 2.17 or 2.18 sources with a GLIBC_2.19 symbol version; you might need
> to backport the additions of new versions to Versions.def.
This is also my favorite solution. Even though it requires a
rebootstrap-the-world for everyone, it is the most sane one.
Andreas.
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