Re: Which Linux distributions are the developers of glibc using?

[Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail dot com>]

On May 31, 2015 12:53:56 AM EDT, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>On 30 May 2015 17:11, nick wrote:
>> On 2015-05-30 05:09 PM, james harvey wrote:
>> > I started with Redhat and moved to Fedora when it came out, and
>have
>> > stuck with it.
>> > 
>> > Trying to upgrade my glibc to the git master has, for the first
>time,
>> > exposed me to distribution-specific patches.
>> > 
>> > There can be quite a few conflicts trying to merge in the Fedora
>> > patches for their latest release of a package, and that project's
>> > current source tree.
>> > 
>> > I could be wrong, of course, but I assume the glibc developers are
>> > using a distribution that allows them to just install the glibc
>> > source, without distribution-specific patches on top to complicate
>> > their development.  Which ones are these?  I figure Linux From
>Scratch
>> > would qualify for what I'm looking for, but want to know my
>options.
>>
>> Arch Linux/Gentoo do this do otherwise there are few distributions
>that do 
>> this. 
>
>Gentoo, like every distro, has its own patchset on top of glibc.  i
>can't speak 
>to specifics in Redhat/Fedora, but the Gentoo patchset are largely bug
>fixes.
>i glanced through them (they're in git under gentoo/2.21) and i can't
>see any 
>that would cause your system to fail if you used vanilla glibc.  of
>course, if 
>you needed one of those build fixes (like some of the arch updates),
>then it's 
>to be expected that vanilla glibc also won't work :).  but that largely
>applies 
>to arches like hppa.
>-mike
Mike, 
That's what I meant there are only bug fixes and not distribution specific patches. 
Nick

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