Status on Glibc 2.6.1 and friends

Greg Schafer diy-linux-dev@diy-linux.org
Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:41:05 +1000


On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:20:37AM -0600, Alberto Trevi=F1o wrote:

> I saw that Greg posted changes upgrading to Glibc 2.6.1, GCC 4.2.1 and=20
> Binutils 2.17.50.0.18.  Now that the first revisions of these packages =
our=20
> out, I would like to know if it is safe to proceed and use them or if i=
t is=20
> still rocky trying to build an entire system with them and I should sti=
ck=20
> with Glibc 2.5, GCC 4.1, etc.

It all seems fine here (at least on x86). But you'd be better off testing
for yourself and reporting any problems.

Regards
Greg