Re: glibc 2.1.95 (5th test release)

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>]

> Cc: libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
> Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> Date: 09 Oct 2000 08:22:54 -0700

> Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu> writes:
> 
> > The net result is that one ends up with a huge number of rebuilds
> > required against glibc 2.1.95 to totally purge your system of
> > any hybrid binaries linked against glibc 2.1.3 and glibc 2.1.95
> > built binaries. So this basically is a showstopper for us on ppc.
> 
> I don't disagree.  But I cannot delay everything else indefinitely
> while waiting for this to be fixed.

OK, then, I think what we have to do is go back to the old way of
doing __gmon_start__ until this is fixed.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>