On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:10:42PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes: > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:44:53AM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:01:40AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> > Hello Guix! > >> > > >> > Yup, I just created a new ‘core-updates’ branch by pushing > >> > <https://bugs.gnu.org/27849>. Enjoy! > >> > > >> > Let’s freeze in one month, say Oct. 1st? > >> > > >> > Ludo’. > >> > > >> > >> Lets also have a reminder about a week before to make sure we get things > >> like tzdata. > >> > >> I'm currently test building texinfo@6.4. I tried a blind update of > >> glibc, binutils, texinfo and grep but it failed during building a gcc, > >> so now i'm breaking it into smaller chunks. > >> > > > > It looks like binutils@2.29.1 is coming mid-September¹ so I'm not > > touching binutils for now. I'm not sure why updating glibc is causing > > gcc to fail to build. > > Can you post the glibc update patch?
I didn't actually keep a patch of the update. 2.25->2.26, the 3 CVE patches and the memchr-overflow and vectorized-strcspn get dropped. in gnu/packages/commencement.scm I changed the two 'package/inherit' to 'package (inherit '. > > Probably unrelated, but we also have to change the '--enable-kernel' > configure flag to say '3.2.0' since that is the minimum supported by > glibc 2.26. I didn't change this in my patch. > > Also, one month, yay! Hopefully a shorter schedule will reduce the > amount of build issues during each round. > > Since we're on the topic, I would like to switch to GCC 6 or 7 soon... > Are we agile enough to use the very latest GCC by default yet? :-) That would be nice to at least move to GCC 6. My aarch64 board is currently idle, I can see how well it works on my machine. -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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