On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 08:21:17PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:31:13PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > > Ben, > > Well on ppc we will have one specific requirement. All builds will > > have to be done on binutils 2.13.90.0.6 or greater. This is because > > in binutils 2.13.90.0.5 a glitch in how *r_offset was set was corrected > > (now its always zero) that prevented prelink from unprelinking back to > > the original binaries. This was because the value of *r_offset was set > > in an unpredictable manner before. The need for binutils 2.13.90.0.6 > > is because of a bug that caused libraries to be created by ld which > > were not properly -zcombreloc and caused prelink to complain. This > > fix is multi-arch so while we don't know for sure if it effected non-ppc > > arches before 2.13.90.0.6, it certainly can't now. > > Let me be clear: that is a requirement for _prelink_, not for glibc. > Glibc should be fine with our current binutils packages. So this does > not need to be done right away.
I think the argument was that if half the dist is going to be rebuilt when gcc-3.2/glibc-2.3 releases, we might as well put ppc in a position to work well with it at the same time. If it doesn't cause extra delay, I can't see a problem with it. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
