status of 0.9.30 release

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 25 September 2008 16:53:24 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:49:54AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> >Bernhard Reutner-Fischer schreef:
> >> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 09:56:13AM +0200, Carmelo Amoroso wrote:
> >>> Indeed I've few pending patches to push that may be worth
> >>> including in .30 release.
>
> I plan to roll an -rc2 during the weekend of the 4th october, fwiw.

I get back to Austin October 2, and should have a week or so of decent banging 
on FWL with the new uClibc to figure out what goes weird on arm/mips/powerpc, 
and will probably actually try to get sparc to finally work.  (It was a 
uClibc problem last time, I'll take another stab at it under -rc1 or -rc2.)

I just redid bits of the FWL architecture so it understands that packages can 
have both stable and unstable versions, and allow you to select 'em 
independently.  (Took a while to figure out how to do it without complicating 
the hell out of the thing.)  So testing of actual new packages can resume 
now, except for the "off visiting friends far away from home" thing...

> An -rc1 is in uclibc.org/downloads/, the REVISION file contains the
> revision the tarball was created at. There were some improvements since
> then, so i recommend trying trunk instead.

Lemme poke at the -rc1 first. :)

> >>> - locale supports fixes
>
> I have touched the make machinery in extra/locale a bit to make it work
> better for me, fwiw. I don't need locale, so tested fixes and
> improvements are of course very welcome.

Removing LINUXTHREADS_OLD might be a good idea.  (This still has nothing to do 
with NPTL.)  Having two is silly, and anything that's wrong with the newer 
linuxthreads should be _fixed_ before NPTL goes in.  Eliminating unnecessary 
duplication is always a plus, and removing code where possible is what uClibc 
is all about, really.

Rob