On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:33:11AM -0700, Russ Dill wrote: [...] >> But I see rough times ahead for the binary snapshots. I surely can't make >> one for each system out there. And if the others distros don't also >> upgrade to glic-2.3 then I think the best is to completely stop the >> snapshots builds and replace them with a nice set of scripts which >> people can use to make their own customized snapshot. > >upgrade to glibc-2.3? technically, such a thing doesn't exist yet, so to >ask every distro to upgrade to it... redhat is making cvs snapshots of >glibc, and distributing those instead of patching important bugs in the >release version, and using that. CVS versions of software often contain >new bugs and even security vulnerabilities, it is far more prudent to >work with a release version of such a major system component. Because of >this, most distros will probably wait until it becomes a release until >they include it.
I agree that that would be a cleaner approach. Anyway my comments above weren't actually refering to this unreleased version. I was referring to the point when glibc-2.3 would be released and adopted by other distributions. But as Michel Danzer said, we can stick to produce glibc-2.2.5 compiled snapshots for a little longer as they should work both on glibc-2.2.x as well as glibc-2.3.x. gcc shouldn't be a problem either as there is no C++ code in the DRI drivers. > >I really do see your frustration, as now anyone who develops software on >redhat (at least those that keep up with redhat) cannot release binaries >and expect them to work on anyone elses system. You don't need to worry >about compiling for every system out there, just what is current >release. > >As far as actually getting this done, redhat has provided cross compiler >rpms in the past, so you may be able to get these, and cross compile for >glibc2.2. I don't see a rough time for binary snapshots, just a rough >time for developers using cvs snapshots of glibc Unfortunately it does provide compat-gcc packages but not glibc ones. Jose Fonseca ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
