Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Ann: gcc-2.96 compiled snapshots available (I'm going to smack redhat)

[Alan C. <al...@lx...>]

> release version, and using that. CVS versions of software often contain
> new bugs and even security vulnerabilities, it is far more prudent to
> work with a release version of such a major system component. Because of
> this, most distros will probably wait until it becomes a release until
> they include it.

Ask the glibc 2.3 maintainer. I can tell you for free that 2.3 contains
fixes for security holes in 2.2-*. I can't tell you the holes because
CERT won't let anyone yet. So thats not true.

> As far as actually getting this done, redhat has provided cross compiler
> rpms in the past, so you may be able to get these, and cross compile for
> glibc2.2. I don't see a rough time for binary snapshots, just a rough
> time for developers using cvs snapshots of glibc

Yawn and its not a CVS snapshot.

If instead of whining someone figured out why the weirdass XFree86
binary module load has problems with this we might get somewhere
instead.