Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
Mark Mitchell wrote:
2. Jakub Jelinek reports that we're miscompiling GLIBC.
[I think this is http://gcc.gnu.org/PR22043 ]
The latter problem seems to me to be as severe as the KDE bug that was
the impetus for this release. ...
Agreed. I've had mixed reports from folks over in the Gentoo universe
about glibc; perhaps this page might be of interest:
http://process-of-elimination.net/?q=gentoo_and_gcc_4_0_0_tips_and_tricks
I think that's a different issue.
Jakub's almost certainly building glibc-cvs, not glibc-2.3.5,
and in PR22043, he says it seems to compile fine, but the resulting
code is broken.
The gentoo issue is probably just that glibc-2.3.5 won't compile with gcc-4.0.0.
That's well known; it needs fixes
(e.g.
http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/patches/glibc-2.3.5/glibc-2.3.4-allow-gcc-4.0-iconvdata.patch).
Fixes for all these compatibility problems are in glibc-cvs, I think.
(Interestingly, the fixes in glibc-cvs seem to have been made in such a way
that the
new glibc won't be compilable by older versions of gcc, like gcc-3.4.4.
I guess the thinking is that everyone should be using the latest gcc?)
- Dan
