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

[Dallas Foley]

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 <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

Confirmed. gpe-mini-browser2 works with glibc 2.10.1