From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NYRd5-0000lw-U4 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:05:27 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NYRan-0003Qy-CN for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:03:01 +0100 Received: from s207-6-220-230.bc.hsia.telus.net ([207.6.220.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:03:01 +0100 Received: from dfoley by s207-6-220-230.bc.hsia.telus.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:03:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Dallas Foley Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:02:37 -0800 Message-ID: <4B5A207D.7080904@techsol.ca> References: <19c1b8a91001211410y19908564h7fe9aca3f81317ab@mail.gmail.com> <4B58D410.2020100@techsol.ca> <20100121232210.GB11015@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s207-6-220-230.bc.hsia.telus.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) In-Reply-To: <20100121232210.GB11015@gmail.com> Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org 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: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:05:27 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Khem Raj wrote: > 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 Confirmed. gpe-mini-browser2 works with glibc 2.10.1