Speak of the devil. I didn't realize it was quite this imminent... there's a comment on libc-alpha that the release defaults to pentium4 on i386, so be careful.
----- Forwarded message from Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 05:36:56 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: first test release for glibc 2.3 (2.2.91) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've uploaded glibc-2.2.91.tar.bz2 glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.91.tar.bz2 to sources.redhat.com:/sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/glibc/snapshots These files contain the first test release for glibc 2.3. There are no diffs as they would be unreasonably large. I also stopped uploading gzip-compressed files. Let's save bandwidth. The news for this release can be read in the NEWS file. It's mainly a release to improve performance. To build glibc 2.2.91 you have to use gcc 3.2 and very recent, on some platforms even patched, binutils. Releases build in HJ Lu's 2.13.90.0.2 release (or latter) seem to work. Part of what this test release should achieve is to find out which tools work. Do not use gcc 3.3 and no earlier binutils versions. When compiling a few problems might pop up. I had problems in the elf subdir when compiling using -j4 and higher. A stamps file is reported missing. In this case just restart the build. Other problems I saw are random failures in the math code. But only on P4 sytems. I haven't yet investigated this thoroughly. On Alpha there might be a build problem right now. We'll have a patch soon and will create a new test release. Everybody who builds this release is asked to drop a note with the results and the tools used. Please send the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't file the reports in the gnats system. We know this release has some rough edges when it comes to building it but the code should be reasonable stable and we should have reached the end of all improvement work. The faster and the more feddback we get the faster we can make a stable release. - -- - ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9bMPt2ijCOnn/RHQRAhGuAKCVh15zj4GPA8hFHIgsW3B2x8EMOwCgiLOq RzeJVMPfgJghpQVZ9Hk5oTI= =oqpb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
