Re: Etch glibc ...

2007-04-15 Thread Bob Tracy
Tom Evans wrote: > I'm really just shooting for the "out of box" experience with Etch on > Alphs to be "stable". > > I know (and use) the newer versions of glibc - I would just rather that > people *choose* > to use a newer version instead of being required to get something from > testing or u

Re: Etch glibc ...

2007-04-15 Thread Tom Evans
Bob Tracy wrote: I reported elsewhere that version 2.3.999.2-11 (glibc-2.4) seems to work fine, and Uwe reported that libc6.1_2.5-1_alpha.deb is working also. If for some reason people require glibc-2.3, they will have to retrieve the sources for the stable package and apply the appropriate work

Re: Etch glibc ...

2007-04-15 Thread Bob Tracy
Tom Evans wrote: > I just wanted to mention that while the "stable" glibc is still broken, > a few people are trying to look at it - I recommend people check out the > conversation at: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325600 > > I'm glad to hear that a new alphaserver is com

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-15 Thread Bob Tracy
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:35:03PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > (2) being unable to build firefox with gcc/g++ 4.X (compiler segfault > > during build). firefox-1.5.X and -2.0.X build fine with gxx-3.4, > > although it takes nearly eight hours for a build to finish d