FS#55188 - [glibc] remove --enable-kernel option in PKGBUILD

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by userwithuid (userwithuid) - Friday, 18 August 2017, 01:39 GMT
Last edited by Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion) - Monday, 04 September 2017, 07:16 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Arch has

--enable-kernel=2.6.32

in the PKGBUILD for glibc that can be removed.

Reason:
The option was already useless for a few releases as 2.6.32 was the minimum since glibc 2.20.

Now with glibc 2.26, this has turned misleading, as the minimum is now kernel 3.2.0 and lower versions are ignored. (check with e.g. "file /usr/bin/sln").
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Closed by  Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Monday, 04 September 2017, 07:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  glibc 2.26-2
Comment by Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion) - Friday, 18 August 2017, 06:24 GMT
2.6.32 is still considered "sufficient" for i686/x86_64 from what I understand, but I will do that when I'll be rebuilding/upgrading glibc and gcc next time.
Comment by userwithuid (userwithuid) - Friday, 18 August 2017, 12:37 GMT
I think you got that wrong, release notes [1] say 3.2.0 for x86, commit [2] agrees, using "file" on any glibc 2.26 linked binary (as mentioned in OP) says "GNU/Linux 3.2.0". But yeah, no rebuild necessary since the option is ignored anyway. :-)

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=8295f20c0a5dcaddef512d5769b45b7bda902ee4;hb=1c9a5c270d8b66f30dcfaf1cb2d6cf39d3e18369#l177
[2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=139ace95756a61715a18051c102bd67ca5166b3c

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