[OE-core] [RFT] Glibc 2.23 and binutils 2.26

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 06:44 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Alexander Kanavin
> <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On 01/17/2016 01:54 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > 
> > > upstream glibc and binutils release branches have been cut out
> > > and are
> > > being made ready for next release
> > > I have put together update patchset for both of them
> > > 
> > > here are the branches
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/kraj/openembedded-core/tree/kraj/binutils-2.26
> > > https://github.com/kraj/openembedded-core/tree/kraj/glibc-2.23
> > 
> > 
> > Hello Khem,
> > 
> > when are you planning to submit these?
> 
> binutils exposes a problem for ppc as a result kernel fails to build.
> The fix is to drop
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-devto
> ols/gcc/gcc-5.3/0030-Enable-SPE-AltiVec-generation-on-powepc-linux
> -target.patch
> 
> that patch makes generic ppc configs to be specific to fsl ppc.
> but we need context as to why this was done
> 
> glibc is still not released.

I ran the binutils upgrade in -next on the autobuilder. It looked
mostly good but with poky-lsb we did see:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-x86-64-lsb/b
uilds/635/steps/BuildImages/logs/stdio

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-x86-64-lsb/b
uilds/635/steps/BuildImages_1/logs/stdio

Cheers,

Richard