On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote: > 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. > > Forgot to mention what may be on of the more important parts... The minimum > kernel version required for glibc was bumped from 2.6.16 to 2.6.18.
This is probably news-item worthy when we move it out to [core], more as an FYI than anything. -Dan
