On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:34:29PM +0200, Tijnema wrote: > On 6/8/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm currently at glibc-2.3.6, and I would love to upgrade it to > > > glibc-2.6, > > > > Why ? I've only built glibc-2.6 on ppc64, to see if it helped with > > the showstopper gcc-4.2 problems (it didn't), but I came across posts > > on diy-linux pointing to some problems, both with itself (maybe > > 2.6.1 will be released) and with its decision to include a version > > of futimens(). > > I hate old versions :P I want to keep my system up to date, so when I > want to install a small app, i don't need to reinstall my complete > system because glibc is outdated :P > If glibc suddenly provides a new feature, it will take time for applications to be altered to test for it and use it. For bug-fixes, no doubt they are nice (if they work correctly), but I don't follow the toolchain lists so I've no idea what fixes have gone in, or if any of the bugs are likely to bite me.
As to your hardware problems, I can't think of anything else to suggest. If it was mine, I'd eventually be tempted to start swapping things around (e.g. power supply) in case it helped (simply because a box that can't build gcc isn't very useful to me). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
