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Re: glibc 2.2.5pre1
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- To: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Cc: GNU libc testers <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:04:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.2.5pre1
- References: <m3u1twxpm5.fsf@myware.mynet>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
> I've uploaded the files
>
> glibc-2.2.5pre1.tar.bz2 (also .gz)
> glibc-2.2.4-2.2.5pre1.diff.bz2 (also .gz)
> glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.5pre1.tar.bz2 (also .gz)
>
> to
>
> ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/releases
>
> This is the first test release for 2.2.5. The main change (beside bug
> fixes) are those which enable gcc3 to be used. This means a lot of
> complicated code dealing with exception handling. Everybody who
> uses/writes C++ programs using exception should give this release a
> try.
>
> Report failures and success to libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com. Please
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> (libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com). The latter will soon fail to
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We've tested pre1 on PowerPC, Sparc, x86 and ia64 without further
problems. S390 failed but I expect that S390 works with Martin's
latest patches,
Andreas
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