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Message-ID: <20111110182221.GA23519@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:22:21 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: glibc update
Vasiliy,
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 09:17:05PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> I'm planning to start glibc update tomorrow. What's the version we're
> planning to support?
I think we should try to stay with latest release (+ patches) at all
times. Due to symbol versioning, we don't need to use an older version
of glibc even if we provide binary compatibility for a distro with such
version.
> The latest official release is 2.14:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/s/libc/
There's 2.14.1 under ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
I think we should update to that now, then expect to make 1 or 2 minor
updates as new glibc releases come out before Owl 4.0.
For patches, please take a look at ALT's package of glibc, although it
uses a git tree instead of separate patches now. Rather than update our
current patches, I think we should reuse the results of Dmitry's work,
extracting already existing forward-ports of our changes from ALT's git.
> Given your past email, we're likely need binutils update first.
Yes, please work on that as well.
Please coordinate with me before you commit these two updates.
Thanks,
Alexander
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