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Re: state of the project
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Jeff Bailey <jbailey at nisa dot net>
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, GNU libc devel <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 16:12:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: state of the project
- References: <3E16A509.7080909@redhat.com> <20030104155524.GA7624@nisa.net>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:55:24AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:10:33AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
> > PPC64, S390, S390x are in a slightly different boat. Here the
> > development stopped after the port was finished and glibc worked, at
> > some time, out of the box. Continued maintenance is missing and it
> > shows. I think glibc cannot even be compiled for any of these platforms
> > today.
>
> s390 and s390x both compiled fine with CVS from December 2nd, 2002. I
> don't have the `make check' output handy, though.
But they certainly don't work since the cancellation changes in linuxthreads
(ie. since mid December).
I wrote sysdep-cancel.h and other stuff for s390 (32-bit) today, already
passes make check with exception that socket.S using routines aren't yet
cancellable (writing that now).
Jakub