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Re: Status of Glibc 2.0 (fwd)

Here is the response I got from Ulrich Drepper regarding the state of
glibc 2.0.  I wouldn't expect it to be ready until mid-February at the
earliest.  IMO, if we want to use glibc in our next release, we will
have to push the release back about a month to give everyone time to
convert and test with it.

David
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 17 Jan 1997 13:33:21 +0100
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@myware.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Reply-To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: David Engel <david@elo.sw.ods.com>
Subject: Re: Status of Glibc 2.0

david@elo.sw.ods.com (David Engel) writes:
> What is the status of glibc 2.0 for Linux and when do you think it
> will be ready for public use?  We are trying to finalize our plans
> for the next major release of Debian and had hoped to switch to
> glibc.  However, if it won't be ready in the next 2-4 weeks, we will
> have to stick with Linux libc 5.

I certainly plan to have 2.0 out within the next weeks.  I was now a
week outof town so everything stuck a bit which will now change again.
Before I left I made another big and incompatible change: some of the
kernel related types in glibc (i.e., user level) now are different
than in the kernel.  E.g., sigset_t now has room for 1024 bits, uid_t
is 32 bits wide on i386.  We probably have done most of the necessary
changes by now but some more testin is necessary.

The biggest problem beside testing currently is how to make gcc work.
For using it with glibc you need a special specs file.  Richard Kenner
does not want a special release to have an official gcc release
supporting glibc so various proposals were made how to solve this but
nothing actually works.  I need to figure out what to do and whether
we can change the ld.so to work in all situations.

In short: I still hope to have glibc ou within few weeks and would
suggest to base any future releases on it.

-- Uli
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Ulrich Drepper  \    ,-------------------'   \  76149 Karlsruhe/Germany
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