Re: glibc-2.6 status

On 7/28/07, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 28 July 2007, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > On 7/28/07, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > is it worth trying to make vanilla glibc-2.6 work ?  once i fixed
> > > elf/elf.h to have all of the new PARISC defines, it cross-compiled fine
> > > for me ... or is there more patches needed for runtime ?
> >
> > Yes, it is worth trying to make vanilla glibc-2.6 work.
>
> ok, i'll start riding GMsoft ;)
>
> > Note that because sometime compiles OK doesn't mean it actually
> > functions. Did you have any test failures?
>
> right, i wasnt proposing compile == means life is great.  it's trivial for me
> to cross-compile on my fast ppc64 machines (~15 minutes), i wanted to find
> out the expected status before i go building it natively on a parisc box
> (~many hours).
>
> > My current set of libc and libc-ports patches:
> > http://www.parisc-linux.org/~carlos/libc-2007-07-28.diff
> > http://www.parisc-linux.org/~carlos/libc-ports-2007-07-28.diff
> >
> > My current set of unaudited failures:
> > http://www.parisc-linux.org/~carlos/libc-error-2007-07-28.txt
>
> thanks for the info

The libc-ports patches are now upstream.

Cheers,
Carlos.