glibc heads up

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Thursday, July 22, 2010 01:45:37 am Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:54:32AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > right now a glibc build is going on that has --enablekernel=2.6.32
> > 
> > from Jakub
> > 
> > Bumping that from 2.6.18 used currently means e.g. to get rid of compat
> > bloat for private futexes, utimensat, fallocate, O_CLOEXEC/pipe2 etc.
> > (lots of cloexec/nonblocking stuff), ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ, accept4,
> > realtime clocks in futexes, missing AT_RANDOM, preadv/pwritev,
> > F_GETOWN_EX.
> > 
> > Especially private futexes and the cloexec/nonblock stuff affects quite a
> > lot of glibc code.
> 
> At least it'll indirectly "fix" the broken preadv emulation bug:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg25242.html
> 
> > what this does mean is that you can no longer use rhel5 to build  fedora
> > 14 and newer packages.  though you had to jump though hoops already to
> > do this
> 
> Won't this break Koji builds?  I thought they were still done on
> RHEL 5.
> 
> Rich.
the active x86_64 builders are all rhel6 beta2 updated right now.

Dennis
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