[oe] I realy think we should upgrade PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc to 2.9 in conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain.inc

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Guo Hongruan <camelguo at gmail.com> 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:
>
> 1. Most of distributions have upgraded their preferred glibc to 2.9 long
> time ago.
> conf/distro/angstrom-2008.1.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc                ?=
> "2.9"
> conf/distro/angstrom-2008.1.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc-initial        ?=
> "2.9"
> conf/distro/jlime-2009.1.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc-initial = "2.9"
> conf/distro/jlime-2009.1.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc = "2.9"
> conf/distro/kaeilos.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc                ?= "2.9"
> conf/distro/kaeilos.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc-initial        ?= "2.9"
>
> from the above, you can get to know that most distributions have upgraded
> their preferred glibc to 2.9 from 2008 ago.
>
> Of course, there are still some distributions which uses old glibc. The only
> reason I guess is that we have not updated them for a long time. (for from
> tinderbox, you can get to know that these distributions have not been built
> for a long time)
>
>
> 2. from tinderbox, you can see that the glibc-2.9 is well-tested, no
> glibc-2.6
> http://tinderbox.openembedded.net/packages/?name=glibc&page=1
>
> from the above link, you can get to know that the glibc-2.9 not glibc-2.6.1
> has had most testing.
>
> 3. the last reason is that I have built some projects with glibc-2.6, unless
> with the old binutils, the glibc-2.6 always failed to build.
>
> So, I think it is the time to upgrade PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc to 2.9 in
> sane-toolchian.inc

Yes I am ok with this. Infact you could even use 2.10.1 now you are at it
and micro already did the change.

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