Re: [ PATCH ] Replace glibc spin-locks with gsync-based locks

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Agustina Arzille  writes:

> The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> -   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> +   version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Please don't change the license of glibc to LGPLv3-or-later.
There are GPLv2-only programs that link with glibc,
and FSF says GPLv2 is not compatible with LGPLv3.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility

Re: ext2fs crash

[Justus Winter]

Hi :)

Quoting Thomas Schwinge (2016-04-27 22:53:33)
> Before preparing the next set of releases, I wanted to sort-of
> sanity-check what we currently got (at least in terms of Debian
> packages), so yesterday dist-upgraded my Debian GNU/Hurd system to the
> latest packages, and started a GCC bootstrap build and testsuite run.
> That one didn't complete successfully...
> 
> I can confirm that the
> 
> issue appears to be fixed -- yay, thanks!

:)

> [...]
> I suppose we want to fix (or, at least understand) that problem before
> making the releases?

No.  Let's take what we have and release it.  Even though some people
are having trouble with ext2fs, for most people it is working really
well (e.g. the build daemons).

Do you need help with the announcements?

Justus

Re: Minor bug introduced by commit b04364b

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Esa Peuha (2016-05-06 18:39:11)
> Most changes in commit b04364b seem to be fine, but this one isn't:
> 
> @@ -405,7 +401,7 @@ run (const char *server, mach_port_t *ports, task_t *task)
>  }
> 
>if (verbose)
> -fprintf (stderr, "started %s\n", prog);
> +fprintf (stderr, stderr, "started %s\n", prog);

Ewww :( fixed, thanks :)

Justus