RFA: Port maintainers: Convert WORDSIZE[32|64]/ld to abi-variants

[H.J. Lu]

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2012, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> I restored sh and sparc entries in shlib-versions on hjl/abi branch.
>> The new patch is at
>>
>> http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=patch;h=0d1f492b3cf83a200601c1f49734b048c5547e57
>
> Provided the new version passes architecture maintainer testing I think it
> will probably be OK for 2.16, given the comments Roland requested saying
> that the use of soname variables set in makefiles is wrong and a bug filed
> with a 2.17 milestone to get this cleaned up properly along the lines I
> proposed (naming ABI variants, not triplets, in shlib-versions, with all
> the architecture information in shlib-versions moving to appropriate
> sysdeps directories shared by all the ABI variants of each architecture).
>

I opened:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14171


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H.J.