glibc 2.1.94

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

Time for another test release.  Quite a number of bug fixes went in
since the last test release but no severe problem popped up.

 - several iconv modules and charmaps fixed; one of these changes
   is responsible for a major part of the patch file size

 - PPC and MIPS should be much happier after fixing some compatibility
   problems

 - program using AIO but not threads should work again

 - more ISO C cleanliness of the headers

 - some new functions to allow program *not* to look into the FILE
   structure while still getting information which they couldn't get
   with existing interfaces; these new interfaces come from Solaris

 - some false alarms in the test suite are fixed

 - a problem in malloc which prevented non-threaded applications in
   some situations from allocating all available memory is fixed

 - one compatibility problem with glibc 2.0 is fixed

 - much better LC_COLLATE representation (on disk and in localedef)

 - prepare all parts of the code for LFS (all functions internally use
   internally now LFS versions of the functions)

 - general non-x86 platform stabilization.  All of the constantly tested
   platforms should work just fine (leaving tools problems aside):

   + x86: no known problems
   + m68k: no known problems
   + Alpha: should work with a correct kernel (FPU stuff)
   + PPC: some people have patched versions of binutils and gcc and
          report success; but they are just lucky; tools patches are
          coming sometime soon
   + Arm: working except for one problem in the compiler (no ETA) and
          you need a recent kernel
   + SPARC: should work, don't have recent reports
   + MIPS: should work, don't have recent reports
   + SH: should work, don't have recent reports

   + IA-64: possibly working; but special gcc + binutils + kernel are
            required
   + S390: no idea

   I also haven't heard much about Hurd lately but assume they would have
   shouted if something broke.


At

       ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/releases/

the files

       glibc-2.1.94.tar.bz2               (also .gz)
       glibc-2.1.93-2.1.94.diff.bz2       (also .gz)
       glibc-linuxthreads-2.1.94.tar.bz2  (also .gz)
       nss_db-2.1.92.tar.gz

are available for download.  The last file contains the now separately
distributed nss_db module.  You have to install this after glibc and
after a db library is made available.

For those who want checksums (MD5 in this case):

205168bde0bd4e9d809e7036ad404f90  glibc-2.1.94.tar.bz2
dde5c79bbba25cf1911585ee98c1c659  glibc-2.1.94.tar.gz
632621929f3f447f511910011e8a57b3  glibc-2.1.93-2.1.94.diff.bz2
3f4e79cf55e96477070bb09495b200dc  glibc-2.1.93-2.1.94.diff.gz
a966f2601e5b4448acf454bd4f0892f4  glibc-linuxthreads-2.1.94.tar.bz2
eab2c33e664b6c8631743d1bd7f6130b  glibc-linuxthreads-2.1.94.tar.gz


Please send feedback to libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com (and only
here!).  Also reports about successful compilation attempts are
necessary.

I am still extremely disappointed about the participation.  I got one
or two reports about a successful compilation and bug reports from
perhaps six people outside the developer group.  This is not enough
evidence that things are working properly.  I repeat this: you can
test glibc without installing it.  Just compile and run `make check'.
The only thins you need is diskspace (about 350MB on x86, more on RISC
platforms), working tools (make, gcc, binutils), and either time or a
fast machine.

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