Re-sending this as a reminder... -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hey all, now that upstream has already released glibc-2.27, we should think about getting glibc-2.26 stable soon. That, however, means work for all of us. Typical problems: * Build failures because xlocale.h is gone https://bugs.gentoo.org/638010 Fix: include locale.h instead * Build failures, undefined reference to 'minor' / 'major' https://bugs.gentoo.org/575232 Fix: additionally include sys/sysmacros.h No, we can't delay this further; the inclusion is (finally) also upstream gone in 2.28. Everything we fix now will for sure save us trouble later. * Build failures because of missing rpc support in glibc https://bugs.gentoo.org/381391 See the following wiki page for information: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/RPC_implementation * Build failures because of missing NIS support After fixing rpc support, add a dependency on net-libs/libnsl (unconditionally). * Some internal type definitions have changed, which may lead to more obscure build problems (rare). Please test and fix bugs!!! If you want to update your otherwise stable system, please keyword the following (otherwise you'll get blockers): ~sys-libs/glibc-2.26 =net-libs/libnsl-1* =net-libs/rpcsvc-proto-1* Feel free to try emerging sys-libs/glibc with FEATURES=test (that takes a while). On amd64/x86, nearly all of the ~4000 tests succeed; I know of the following problems: * elf/tst-prelink-cmp fails, still needs analysis * only with gcc-7.3.0, six tests math/test-?float128* fail (with my CFLAGS) This is a gcc regression (miscompilation of truncf128), already submitted upstream. In any case, I think this still looks nice: Summary of test results: 7 FAIL 4109 PASS 11 UNSUPPORTED 29 XFAIL 2 XPASS Other arches may show more test failures; please file separate bugs per arch; see https://bugs.gentoo.org/634988#c1 for what is needed for a useful report. Stabilization tracker (fresh and largely yet empty): https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=glibc-2.26-stable General issue tracker: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=glibc-2.26 Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)
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