[fedora-arm] Discussion - F17 GA release for ARM

[Steve McIntyre]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 08:49:57AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>On 05/31/2012 01:50 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
>> There's one addition I would like to see to the final release criteria: 
>> Updated linker path in gcc and glibc.
>
>Why is that important?  We'll drop a compat symlink in anyway,
>and no-one should notice the change.

2 reasons:

 * it would be nice if people using Fedora create binaries using the
   right path for the future

 * the compat symlink on its own isn't enough, changing the filename
   means the soname has changed too. There's a (quick and very dirty)
   glibc patch to make things work regardless - see [1]

We got consensus about the linker path last month, let's *please*
follow through on it everywhere.

[1] http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/cross-distro/2012-April/000263.html

Cheers,
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Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcintyre at linaro.org
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