Hi, Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet?
I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only comment I can find at this early stage is flameeye's blog, and this makes me quadruple nervous: And if you say that “the new GLIBC works for me”, are you saying that the package itself builds or if it’s actually integrated correctly? Because, you know, I used to rebuild the whole system whenever I made a change to basic system packages when I maintained Gentoo/FreeBSD, and saying that it’s ready for ~arch when you haven’t even rebuilt the system (and you haven’t, or you would have noticed that m4 was broken) is definitely something I’d define as reckless and I’d venture to say you’re not good material to work on the quality assurance status. “correctness” in the case of the system C library would be “it a t least leaves the system set building and running”; glibc 2.12 does not work this way. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
