Re: pruning worthless glibc patches from CT-ng

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Saturday 16 February 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 2.6.1/160-glibc-2.4-i686-assembler.patch

sadly this hack is still needed, but the comments in the patch could do with a 
real explanation.  might i suggest stealing the documentation i put into 
1130_all_glibc-2.4-undefine-__i686.patch.

> 2.6.1/150-glibc-2.3.6-fix-pr631.patch

as long as drepper remains stupid wrt static, this will be needed.

> 2.6.1/130-glibc-2.3.6-allow-gcc-4.0-elf.patch

i'd like to think this isnt needed at all for 2.4+ since a fix was supposed to 
be committed to the 2.3 branch+

> 2.6.1/140-glibc-2.3.6-configure-apple-as.patch

i dont think this was ever posted upstream.  it should be.

> 2.6.1/170-glibc-i386-preferred-stack-boundary.patch

no comment

> 2.6.1/110-glibc-2.3.5-allow-gcc4-wcstol_l.patch

afaik, this is no longer needed either.  i had it in Gentoo for the 2.3.x 
series, but dropped it for 2.4 and never saw a complaint.  Debian uses it 
still in glibc-2.7, but dont know if that's just because they carried the 
baggage simply because it applied.

> 2.6.1/120-glibc-2.3.5-cygwin.patch

obviously will never be mainlined and so long as crosstool supports building 
on systems with case-insensitive filesystems, this will be needed.
-mike

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