gentoo patchset

[Carmelo Amoroso]

Cristi Magherusan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:15 +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
>> Cristi Magherusan wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I noticed that the gentoo uclibc ebuild[1] applies a considerable amount
>>> of patches[2]. Has anyone investigated how many of them worth including
>>> in the main uclibc tree? Personally, I'm most interested about the libm
>>> ones, but the other ones may be nice to have too.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Cristi
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.gentoo-portage.com/AJAX/Ebuild/66923
>>> [2] http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/distfiles/
>>> uClibc-0.9.28.3-patches-1.8.tar.bz2
>>>
>>>
>> Being this patch set against 0.9.28 release, that is an old release,
>>   I assume that most of these fixes should be already into the current 
>> main stream. Doing this kind of analysis, even if could shown some 
>> unknown problem, is time consuming. I honestly don't have time for this now.
> 
> The ones I know for sure that are missing both from the latest release and CVS
> are the ones that add those extra functions to libm, and that I really need in 
> order to compile kvm and link it against uClibc.
> 
> Best regards,
> Cristi
> 

May you create an ad hoc patch for this missing libm functions
and propose for adding to uclibc. A config option will be required
to selectively enable/disable this extra... what are they ?

Carmelo
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