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

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri May 15 04:07:27 EDT 2009


Jan de Groot wrote:
> 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.
>   

Yes... I have been busy flying around for work so I haven't had time to 
update this yet.  Update coming soon.

Allan





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