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

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 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

it looks like -fpie is the factor here, I will try to reproduce it here locally
may be we can get away by using system zlib instead of internal one

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>