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Re: pending release
- From: "Ryan S. Arnold" <rsa at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:55:16 -0500
- Subject: Re: pending release
- References: <47FC8386.7090307@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: rsa at us dot ibm dot com
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 01:51 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Thursday night or early on Friday I'll release version 2.8. There are
> likely a few more changes coming but it's a good time to do some sanity
> checking. As usual, the brunt of this work is already being performed
> by the Fedora users since rawhide and the F9 test releases use the trunk
> version. So I'm pretty sure it works fine.
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Hi Ulrich,
It's great to see a forthcoming glibc release but I'm a bit concerned
because we currently have 13 pending PowerPC patches.
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2008-03/msg00027.html
Some of these have been awaiting inclusion since November and deal with
basic platform enablement (the 64-bit FPSCR patch necessary for full
Power6 functionality):
- Re: [PATCH] PowerPC: Extend fpu fenv operations to
operate on 64-bit FPSCR
A number of the patches fix all of the known powerpc make check failures
which we'd hate to move into the 2.8 release still hitting:
- [PATCH][BZ 4997] Fix erroneous corner cases in PowerPC
lround implementations
- Re: [PATCH][BZ 4407] Fix lgamma sign bug for ldbl-128
- [PATCH] PowerPC libm-test.inc expl(1000.0L) result
exceeds __LDBL_MAX__ for IBM Long Double 128.
- [Redux][PATCH] check-localplt failure associated
with IBM long double 128 and PowerPC
There is one patch which is low-probability but high-impact that we'd
definitely like in the next release:
- [PATCH][BZ #5741] fix segfaul in __libc_dlopen_mode
The remaining patches are for either performance improvements or
validity improvements.
Please consider these pending patches for inclusion prior to the 2.8
release.
Regards,
Ryan S. Arnold
IBM Linux Technology Center