Re: Status of the new glibc

1998-01-19 Thread Johnie Ingram
Juan == Juan Cespedes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juan However: almost *all* of our binaries will have to be Juan recompiled. Is it safe to base a distribution on this version of glibc, if the authors feel free to break binary compatibility at any moment? From what I can tell from sparc

Re: Status of the new glibc

1998-01-19 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Is there any reason not to change the soname, if it's that incompatible? it's going to be *hard* to upgrade if we have to basically redo the last month worth of bootstrapping from scratch. If we can use a new soname, I can deal with moving forward with this release... but if we can't do that, or

Re: Status of the new glibc

1998-01-19 Thread Juan Cespedes
On 19 Jan 1998, Mark W. Eichin wrote: Is there any reason not to change the soname, if it's that incompatible? It's not incompatible with glibc-2.0; it is with older pre-2.1 libraries. it's going to be *hard* to upgrade if we have to basically redo the last month worth of

Re: Status of the new glibc

1998-01-19 Thread Mark W. Eichin
It's not incompatible with glibc-2.0; it is with older pre-2.1 Oh, I see, and 2.0.90 is really 2.1-- rather than 2.0++. Note: I think all the programs will still work. They will only display 2 warnings when executing them. If you want, that I guess I misinterpreted -- I thought you

Re: Status of the new glibc

1998-01-19 Thread Juan Cespedes
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 11:17:13AM -0500, Mark W. Eichin wrote: It's not incompatible with glibc-2.0; it is with older pre-2.1 Oh, I see, and 2.0.90 is really 2.1-- rather than 2.0++. Note: I think all the programs will still work. They will only display 2 warnings when executing

Status of the new glibc

1998-01-18 Thread Juan Cespedes
I've (finally) managed to fix the problems with the new glibc; I'm testing it, and I'll upload it in one or two days... However: almost *all* of our binaries will have to be recompiled. Some vital structures have changed and all the programs segfaulted, but I managed to