new in 2005-7-9 glibc: no more LinuxThreads

[Nicholas Miell]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:27 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:03 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > > So glibc will have to be excluded from the update frenzy :)
> > 
> > As I said, in a couple of days we'll hopefully have the gcc, binutils,
> > glibc pieces in place to make the next big change in the build
> > procedures and then you cannot do *any* update unless you get the new
> > glibc.  The rpm infrastructure should catch those requirements but be
> > warned.  We'll announce the build changes ahead of time as well.
> 
> Can we drop -fsigned-char on PPC at the same time?
> 
> Currently, it's massively inconsistent because some packages use
> $RPM_OPT_FLAGS while others don't. If you build an executable from a C
> file with just 'make testprog', you'll end up with different signedness
> of 'char' from that which glibc was built with, etc.
> 

My understanding was that glibc doesn't care which signedness char has.
(Although, other libraries may matter. Perhaps a section on not using
char in library ABIs is in order for dsohowto.pdf)

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net>