> >*please* find a machine with a copy of glibc2.2, wait until glibc2.3 > >actually becomes a release to compile against it (or, if in the case of > >redhat, distribute it with your distro) > > The final RHL 8.0 was released 2 days ago. I'll upgrade soon but I > already checked and it has the same version of gcc. Please note that > the snapshots are done on workstation in the nigth, and I needed to > upgrade for several reasons regarding my work. I have no other machine > powerfull enough to do all these snapshots. > > What I'll do is install a older version of Gentoo in a chroot'ed > environment to compile the snapshots using gcc-2.95.3 and glibc-2.2.5 for > the _time being_. > > But I see rough times ahead for the binary snapshots. I surely can't make > one for each system out there. And if the others distros don't also > upgrade to glic-2.3 then I think the best is to completely stop the > snapshots builds and replace them with a nice set of scripts which > people can use to make their own customized snapshot.
upgrade to glibc-2.3? technically, such a thing doesn't exist yet, so to ask every distro to upgrade to it... redhat is making cvs snapshots of glibc, and distributing those instead of patching important bugs in the release version, and using that. CVS versions of software often contain new bugs and even security vulnerabilities, it is far more prudent to work with a release version of such a major system component. Because of this, most distros will probably wait until it becomes a release until they include it. I really do see your frustration, as now anyone who develops software on redhat (at least those that keep up with redhat) cannot release binaries and expect them to work on anyone elses system. You don't need to worry about compiling for every system out there, just what is current release. As far as actually getting this done, redhat has provided cross compiler rpms in the past, so you may be able to get these, and cross compile for glibc2.2. I don't see a rough time for binary snapshots, just a rough time for developers using cvs snapshots of glibc ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
