hipe patch for glibc.i686 2.3.90

[Serge Aleynikov]

Agree.  This is more for those who are currently working with the 2.6.15 
kernel or with the FC development branch...

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Serge Aleynikov writes:
>  > We ran into the hipe compilation issue (R10B-9) on Linux Fedora related 
>  > to the newer GLIBC version.
>  > 
>  > $ uname -a
>  > Linux stardev1.corp.idt.net 2.6.15-1.1881_FC5.idtsmp #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon 
>  > Jan 30 02:16:35 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>  > 
>  > Installed Packages
>  > glibc.i686   2.3.90-30
> ...
>  > --- erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_x86_signal.c        2006-01-30 10:27:20.000000000 -0500
>  > +++ erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_x86_signal.c        2006-01-30 10:15:46.000000000 -0500
>  > @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
>  >  #include <stdlib.h>
>  >  #include "hipe_signal.h"
>  >  
>  > -#if __GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ == 3
>  > +#if __GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 3
>  >  /* See comment below for glibc 2.2. */
>  >  #ifndef __USE_GNU
>  >  #define __USE_GNU              /* to un-hide RTLD_NEXT */
> 
> So there will be a glibc-2.4 and FC5 will use it. Thanks for this info,
> but note that this patch only fixes up a compilation issue, it doesn't
> guarantee that the sigaction override code actually works with glibc-2.4.
> That requires testing with a multi-threaded runtime system that is
> instructed to create several threads at start-up.
> 
> So I would prefer to delay applying this patch until FC5 final is released
> (around March 15 it seems) and I've had a chance to test it properly.
> 
> /Mikael
> 

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