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

[Khem Raj]

On (21/01/10 14:24), Dallas Foley wrote:
> Khem Raj wrote:
> >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:
> 
> 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