I've updated glibc for openSUSE 12.2 in its development project (Base:System) to version 2.15 and it seems to work on x86, x86-64, PowerPC and even Arm. The new version 2.15 of glibc brings mainly optimizations and bugfixes. The main new features are: * new program pldd to list loaded objects of a process. * nss_db support in glibc - without a dependency on berkely db. * integration of libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option. Besides updating the upstream version, I made a couple of cleanups of the package itself: * The x86-64 package was compiled with -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs - an option only needed for running under 32-bit Xen. This might speedup some threaded applications. * The i686 library is not compiled with -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs anymore but a special version is installed in /lib/i686/nosegneg that is compiled with this flag. So, installations using 32-bit Xen will use the nosegneg library and everybody else the normal version. This should speedup some threaded applications when not using Xen. * The AMD libm implementation has been removed in favour of glibc's libm implementation. It didn't integrate well with the changes that went into glibc 2.15. * I've reviewed all patches we have in the package and tried to upstream as many as possible. We still have far too many, help is welcome to upstream ;) I welcome contributions to the package, testing of glibc 2.15 and fixing of any bugs in glibc or the packages using it. So far, one package was failing due to changes - unscd - and the upstream author provided quickly a fix. Thanks to Cristian Rodriguez for his tests! I'm pushing glibc 2.15 now to openSUSE:Factory for the usual review and integration. If you have any concerns, please speak up. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org