[opensuse-packaging] glibc 2.16 for Factory
I've just blogged the following at
http://jaegerandi.blogspot.de/2012/08/glibc-216-for-opensuse-factory.html and
like to share it here as well.
No action needed from you for now besides reviewing my patches. Fixes
are welcome as well.
The GNU C Library (glibc 2.16) has been released a couple of weeks ago
and is the first release after the changed glibc development model. It
looks like the release with the most bug fixes and most contributors.
The most significant developer visible changes are IMO:
Support for ISO C11
Many bug fixes for the math library thanks to a thorough audit of
all open math library bugs. The results are mor accurate exceptions and
function results.
Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 which also brings unified
headers for x86 and x86-64 - so there are really the same headers for
all three ABIs on x86-64.
I've packaged glibc 2.16 in the openSUSE Build Service and could reduce
the number of patches we had from 61 to 39 - since many of our patches
were upstreamed during 2.16 development and a few backported from it. I
also classified the patches to mark which ones are upstreamed and which
ones are not appropriate for upstream (yet).
While the focus of openSUSE is on getting 12.2 out of the door, I worked
on getting glibc 2.16 ready for the next release in a side project. The
library itself builds fine and Coolo has setup a staging project called
openSUSE:Factory:Staging:Glibc where the whole distribution is build
with the new glibc (in this case we use 12.2 as a base since that one is
moving slower).
Fixing Packages
I've had to fix a small number of packages to get them building with
glibc 2.16 and pushed everything directly to factory.
The issues I encountered and fixed where:
Missing
El 03/08/12 06:55, Andreas Jaeger escribió:
I've just blogged the following at http://jaegerandi.blogspot.de/2012/08/glibc-216-for-opensuse-factory.html and like to share it here as well.
No action needed from you for now besides reviewing my patches. Fixes are welcome as well.
The GNU C Library (glibc 2.16) has been released a couple of weeks ago
I have been using your home: packages for a few weeks and have found no issues yet. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
On 08/03/2012 07:19 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 03/08/12 06:55, Andreas Jaeger escribió:
I've just blogged the following at http://jaegerandi.blogspot.de/2012/08/glibc-216-for-opensuse-factory.html and like to share it here as well.
No action needed from you for now besides reviewing my patches. Fixes are welcome as well.
The GNU C Library (glibc 2.16) has been released a couple of weeks ago
I have been using your home: packages for a few weeks and have found no issues yet.
Thanks for being the guinea-pig ;) 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-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
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