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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 04:17:06
Message-Id: CA+czFiA78pOCY_Fu3C-2XFpN3cS86RK62A4S0Rhpv8ve4hPchQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker. by Dmitry Goncharov
1 On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Dmitry Goncharov
2 <dgoncharov@××××××××.net> wrote:
3 > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 11:56:01PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
4 >> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Dmitry Goncharov
5 >> <dgoncharov@××××××××.net> wrote:
6 >> > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:52:12PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
7 >> >> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
8 >> >> Wow. Just wow. This is incredible.
9 >> >>
10 >> >> This is repeatable for me.
11 >> >>
12 >> > <snip>
13 >> >>  * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named
14 >> >>  * 'glibc-2.14.1-r3.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/sys-
15 >> >>
16 >> > <snip>
17 >> >> CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -march=core2 -mcx16 -msahf
18 >> >> --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param
19 >> >> l2-cache-size=4096 -mtune=core2 -ggdb3"
20 >> >> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
21 >> >
22 >> > Can you upgrage to glibc-2.15?
23 >>
24 >> Sure. It's going to be another full reinstall.
25 >>
26 >> > Can you tweak you gcc flags to something more conventional and see if the
27 >> > problem persists?
28 >>
29 >> Those CFLAGS should be equivalent to:
30 >> CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -ggdb3 --march=native".
31 >>
32 >> But I'll try making it just -O2 -pipe --march=native.
33 >>
34 >> > If you are interested in submitting a patch to the upstream then you can build
35 >> > the glibc test suite with your gcc flags and check if the tests pass.
36 >>
37 >> If it gets things fixed. I have two machines which have been offline
38 >> for almost two months from this.
39 >>
40 >> --
41 >> :wq
42 >>
43 > Also, which gcc are you using? Can you try a different version?
44
45 It updated gcc immediately before glibc, IIRC, so I expect it's newest
46 stable. Kaylee is offline until I do a new reinstall again, but it
47 looks like latest stable in portage is 4.5.3-r2.
48
49 --
50 :wq