On 05/11/2015 17:38, David Edelsohn wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >> >> On 05/11/2015 17:28, David Edelsohn wrote: >>> [Explicitly copying build maintainers.] >>> >>> Paolo and Alexandre, >>> >>> Could you review and help with this patch? >>> >>> TLS symbols in AIX display a new, different symbol type in nm output. >>> Libtool explicitly creates a list of exported symbols for shared >>> libraries using nm and does not recognize the new TLS symbols, so >>> those symbols are not exported. >>> >>> This is a regression for TLS support on AIX. >>> >>> This patch updates libtool.m4 in GCC and configure for libstdc++-v3, >>> libgfortran, and libgomp. I would like to apply the patch to GCC >>> while I simultaneously work with the Libtool community to correct the >>> bug upstream. I also would like to backport this to GCC 5.2 and GCC >>> 4.9.x. >> >> I think it's okay to wait for the patch to be upstream. >> >> I can help committing the patch once it is. > > The patch MUST go into GCC 5.3 release, which Richi has announced that > he wants to release around the beginning of Stage 3. The patch should > not go into GCC 5 branch without going into trunk.
What is blocking the patch from being included in libtool in the next week or two? > This patch cannot > wait unless you want to block GCC 5.3. What blocks GCC 5.3 is decided by the release manager. As a build maintainer, I am not going to ack the patch for trunk until it is included in Libtool, but I'm happy to be overridden by the GCC 5 release manager. Paolo
