On Tuesday 17 August 2010 15:21:35 Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:33:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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. > > OK here on ~amd64, but you got me worried so I emerged m4 to check > and that went OK too.
I got a couple of replies, all like this one - positive. Thanks, all. I'll start the update later on tonight and let 'er run. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
