Re: glibc heads up

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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:54:32AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> right now a glibc build is going on that has --enablekernel=2.6.32
> 
> from Jakub
> 
> Bumping that from 2.6.18 used currently means e.g. to get rid of compat
> bloat for private futexes, utimensat, fallocate, O_CLOEXEC/pipe2 etc. (lots
> of cloexec/nonblocking stuff), ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ, accept4, realtime clocks
> in futexes, missing AT_RANDOM, preadv/pwritev, F_GETOWN_EX.
> 
> Especially private futexes and the cloexec/nonblock stuff affects quite a
> lot of glibc code.

At least it'll indirectly "fix" the broken preadv emulation bug:

http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx/msg25242.html

> what this does mean is that you can no longer use rhel5 to build  fedora 14 
> and newer packages.  though you had to jump though hoops already to do this

Won't this break Koji builds?  I thought they were still done on
RHEL 5.

Rich.

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