Re: Libc patch no longer applies

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:49:28 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès, le Tue 13 Sep 2011 10:46:01 +0200, a écrit :
> > The libc patch from Savannah’s repo no longer applies to upstream libc [0].
> > This is a consequence of the removal of lack-of-TLS support:
> > 
> >   
> > http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d063d164335938d557460bebaa7cfe388157b627;hp=3ce1f2959437e952b9db4eaeed2407424f11a4d1
> > 
> > Should we rebase Savannah’s libc on top of the current upstream libc and
> > then update the topic branches accordingly?
> 
> More than that: libthreads used to set up the thread-specific area, and
> some places are hardcoded. We need to check that this still works.

Hmm, what exactly do you mean?  After some patching/hacking, I have now
forwarded to glibc upstream master (yay!), and the make check situation
basically is as before (yay!), including the TLS tests for which (only)
two of them fail (as in Debian).

> This
> is in my TODO list since years, so now we have to make it more urging.

Is this a material TODO file (and should it be in the wiki then?), or a
spiritual one (in your head)?


Grüße,
 Thomas

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