[Clfs-dev] Updates for this coming week

[Martin Ward]

On 10/11/13 21:05, William Harrington wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This week I plan to test changes and commit changes to the book 
> regarding Martin Ward's findings and moving check to temp-system.
>
> I also will be checking config.cache variables to make sure they are 
> valid or not needed. Although I think the ones that get guessed to yes 
> we may want to make sure they are yes and not guessed. Any input on that?
i left a few as guessed, didn't seem to alter things, but after some 
thought setting them to yes, would probably be a good idea
>
> Updating check, texinfo, automake, make, tzdata, adding the binutils 
> 2.23.2 update branch patch, update check, adjust some package commands 
> because of the updates.
> This is probably a good time to update iproute2 to 3.12.0
must be pending as i couldn't find it still at 3.11 on 
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/
> and update to Linux 3.12.0.
> May update eglibc 2.18 with the latest revision, but it isn't too 
> critical. 
yes agreed, think their was only a couple of nptl changes on ppc
eglibc needs a small adjustment to recognise make 4.0, but after that it 
builds fine
> May wait to eglibc 2.19 at which time, eglibc will be phased out and 
> we will be using glibc.
> The EGLIBC devs are working on getting the transformation done to make 
> sure the current patches get put into glibc mainline that they want.
>
> I will go from x86 to x86_64-64 and x86 to x86_64 to get a proper 
> cross compile to check all details of the updates.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Harrington
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martin