[arch-dev-public] [signoff] glibc-2.14 toolchain build

[Allan McRae]

On 09/06/11 07:20, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> On 7 June 2011 13:18, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> The glibc-2.14 toolchain update is in [testing].  Here is a summary of the
>> changes.
>>
>> glibc-2.14-1
>>   - major version release
>>   - add patch to fix libdl crash
>
> Looks like the glibc update will interfere with other rebuilds (e.g.: Perl).
>
> At least my pidgin package is affected, and will give "/lib/libc.so.6:
> version `GLIBC_2.14' not found" errors if moved to [extra] without
> glibc being moved to [core] at the same time.
>
> What's the preferred course of action we take here? Rebuild affected
> packages with the old glibc? Wait for glibc to move to [core] before
> moving the Perl rebuilds?
>

I thought the perl rebuilds were done a long time before the glibc 
updated hit [testing], so they should be fine.

I would not expect glibc to move any time soon given the crash we are 
currently seeing.

Allan