Bug 456912

Summary:	sys-libs/glibc-2.17 - remove patch 6600_mips_librt-mips.patch
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	ahferroin7, bertrand, mips
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	MIPS
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211684
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Manuel Lauss 2013-02-12 10:56:45 UTC

The patch "6600_mips_librt-mips.patch" does no longer apply to glibc-2.17,
and as far as I can tell, is no longer needed either.  I have multiple MIPS systems which use glibc-2.17 since it hit portage without this patch, and they all work fine, no runtime or buildtime link errors so far.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-02-18 06:17:15 UTC

we tried in the past and it didn't work out

Comment 2 Manuel Lauss 2013-02-18 06:52:43 UTC

Interesting, read the comment in the patchfile as well.

I rebuilt the whole system in the meantime, including KDE, and didn't hit any
problems wrt. glibc.  Do you by chance know which packages are affected by this
patch?

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-02-18 19:15:45 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)

the issue wasn't with rebuilding.  it was that there were programs built against the old glibc with the old symbol, and after upgrading + removing the symbol, the programs broke and needed to be rebuilt.

then the patch was rewritten to try and avoid that.  whether i accomplished that goal, i don't really know.  we could try dropping it and see if anyone complains again ;).

Comment 4 Austin S. Hemmelgarn 2013-04-03 15:04:17 UTC

I can confirm that this bug breaks builds of cross-toolchains with mips or mips64 as the target arch.

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-04-05 18:23:29 UTC

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Disable mips librt patch as it no longer applies -- lets see if people complain about ABI compat
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.17.ebuild?r1=1.10&r2=1.11