From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NY6NS-0006Gu-1n for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:23:53 +0100 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so259827fgg.6 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:21:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=Bndk6NLZSgPjfCBeEb3zs4WQtrNqcOPfFrse9VH32LA=; b=khnbNFb2HCHt9a9TuEy+yTw4aHJk8Vu4LTo0mq4PFO/eV2u/hIDVR/8ZY+jtFXyrRw 8lAiyDKB5+lq7+t5O7v/zZtXZqJly0UJfs9JkxX3WpJ8PpH8lA9m54pUkLBLQ2GMdGHc NF8zxwvvwd6pHvy+LDa3ZVKmNDAwB5YuFzOOw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=f/k5oUXgQyZ5dWzEKtl3tY99pQweWSPcbGz5y8bP1iruJhx6AM0FFiorSPRVvBQKWk rIfxVEXZ3pM2mqTuPEf7KQsmqyArk03pCO3fxt37MhDNVMEcQQ5omyTZIbvt500Jbi0y xzhs9thf6B74MT7QTUy6vzQsBKCvWHpvF/JA8= Received: by 10.87.76.30 with SMTP id d30mr3587122fgl.6.1264116094737; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:21:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from gmail.com (99-57-141-118.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.57.141.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm25421684fgg.22.2010.01.21.15.21.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:21:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:22:10 -0800 From: Khem Raj To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-ID: <20100121232210.GB11015@gmail.com> References: <19c1b8a91001211410y19908564h7fe9aca3f81317ab@mail.gmail.com> <4B58D410.2020100@techsol.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B58D410.2020100@techsol.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 72.14.220.158 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: raj.khem@gmail.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: I realy think we should upgrade PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc to 2.9 in conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain.inc X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:23:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On (21/01/10 14:24), Dallas Foley wrote: > Khem Raj wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Guo Hongruan wrote: > >>Hi guys, > >> I think we should upgrade PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc from 2.6 to 2.9 in > >>conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain.inc. The reasons are: > > Although I haven't tried a build from scratch in a few weeks or so, > I have one known problem with glibc 2.9. I wonder if it's just me or > not. glibc 2.6.1 always works. On my armv4t board gpe-mini-browser2 > always seg faults. I've tried different gcc and binutils > combinations. However, glibc 2.9 on armv5te (imx) or armv7a (omap) > work fine for me. You could try to backport armv4t-interworking.patch from eglibc/files that should help you will getting 2.9 up on armv4t. This patch is applied to 2.10.1 may be moving to 2.10.1 would be better than 2.9 IMO -Khem