Status update

[Greg Schafer]

Hi Guys,

Ok, the Refbuild has been updated with the Glibc-2.6 and GCC-4.2 combo. It
seems reasonable at this point, but a lot more testing is needed. I have
tested this combo on x86 only! Sorry, I just don't have the bandwidth to
test x86_64 and ppc at the moment.. but I'll hopefully get to them
eventually.

It looks like an unpleasant bug snuck into Glibc-2.6 just before release:

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-05/msg00015.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239344

The ABI part of that issue shouldn't really affect us
build-everything-from-source folks, but the malloc debug thing might be
worth switching off for performance reasons. Wonder if we'll see a 2.6.1? We
never did see a point release from the 2.5 branch..

BTW, I've put up a new gsbuild tarball. Any issues with gsbuild should go
directly to me, not the list. But feel free to post to the list any
experiences with the new toolchain combo, including troubles with stuff
beyond the base.

Regards
Greg