[arch-dev-public] glibc-2.10 toolchain in [testing]

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Thu May 14 12:35:05 EDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 00:06 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just push the glibc-2.10(.1) toolchain rebuild into [testing].  
> Apart from the glibc bump, I also updated gmp and took a newer gcc-4.4 
> snapshot which fixes a few compile issues.
> 
> Here goes some information about the glibc update:
> http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html
> 
> The whole broken DNS server issue rears its head again.  It is a bit 
> more fixed than with glibc-2.9, but if you are having issues, read the 
> above link for ways to handle this.
> 
> Some C++ programs that did incorrect things with string const-ness will 
> fail to compile with glibc-2.10.  If you have issues, look to Fedora for 
> patches as F11 has done their builds with this.

gmp 4.3.0 is buggy and causes internal compiler errors on at least i686.
Updating to 4.3.1 is advised.



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