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Re: Temporarily avoid PPC64 LE bootstrap by making GLIBC_2.17 and GLIBC_2.18 equivalent.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3 dot net>, Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Steven Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Brent Baude <baude at us dot ibm dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: Matt Newsome <mnewsome at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:55:43 -0500
- Subject: Re: Temporarily avoid PPC64 LE bootstrap by making GLIBC_2.17 and GLIBC_2.18 equivalent.
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On 01/31/2014 03:40 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Downgrading the PPC64 LE ABI baseline from 2.18 to 2.17
> would normally require a bootstrap from scratch as the core
> C library is no longer able to run any of the binaries on the
> system. Avoiding this bootstrap saves everyone a lot of time.
>
> Patching the dynamic loader is the easiest solution.
Working with Adhemerval we discovered that we need a binutils
patch to do the equivalent action but for the static linker.
I'll post a patch for ld shortly after I get it fixed and
tested.
Cheers,
Carlos.