Update on NPTL status

[Carmelo AMOROSO]

Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi Carmelo, Mike,
>
> On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:39, Carmelo Amoroso wrote:
>   
>> Hi All,
>> as you can see I'm committing new stuf on NPTL branch.
>> This because I've locally merged a lot of latest changes done recently on trunk
>> and I want to keep nptl branch as mush as possibible aligned with trunk
>> before the final merge,
>>
>> Recent changes on trunk include (not availbale on NPTL):
>> - use of UCLIBC_MUTEX_xxx macros
>> - build system rework (better dependency checking)
>> - new way to make and install headers
>> - smallint stuff
>> - string.h, libc_hidden_proto and related changes
>> - other cleanups, warning reduction, cosmetic fixes
>> - other recent work by vda, aldot, myself and others.
>>
>> There some other pending works I'll posr for inclusion to trunk
>> that will be included into nptl too
>>
>> - rework of _dl_iterate_phdr (a my old patch never included)
>> - optimized memcpy for sh4
>> - recent changes on test build system due to hidden_proto change in string.h
>> - integration of futexes with UCLIBC_MUTEX_xxx macros for IO locking
>>
>> The NPTL branch is compiling fine again (please wait until my last commit)
>> and it is under testing on sh4 heavily.
>> I'd expect some regressions due this huge set of changes.
>>
>> Just to ensure all the NPTL is alive :-)
>> I'll be back with other updates (after my next week holiday :-) )
>>     
>
> I propose creating 0.9.30 branch shortly after NPTL merge.
> Call it 0.9.30_rc1 or 0.9.30.0 or whatever, announce it on http://uclibc.org/
> and let people iron out bugs.
>
> Mike, what would you say?
> --
> vda
>   
probably it's better just before NPTL merge. Anyway I need still more 
time, but I'm in a good point
with merging trunk->branch before.
In parallel Khem is working for the ARM part.

Cheers,
Carmelo
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