The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jul 31 18:19:49 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:41:25PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
> > There is however one change that the s/390
> > folks will find painful - s/390 broke ABI in 2.19 without a proper
> > justification and that is now going to be reverted in 2.20 (and in
> > 2.19, but we don't really care about 2.19 right now).
> 
> To expand on this just a bit, the s/390 ABI break was done by the
> s/390 glibc port maintainers and was done intentionally.  This wasn't
> a "oops, we accidentally broke the ABI" bug.  It was something the
> s/390 maintainers decided was of minimal concern and it turns out they
> were wrong.  In my experience, glibc goes above and beyond maintaining
> their software.  This s/390 incident is an anomaly in an otherwise
> very controlled and well-run software project.

(FYI) LWN article on this subject:

https://lwn.net/Articles/605607/

Rich.

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