Update on NPTL status

[Denys Vlasenko]

Hi Carmelo, Mike,

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:39, Carmelo Amoroso wrote:
> Hi All,
> as you can see I'm committing new stuf on NPTL branch.
> This because I've locally merged a lot of latest changes done recently on trunk
> and I want to keep nptl branch as mush as possibible aligned with trunk
> before the final merge,
> 
> Recent changes on trunk include (not availbale on NPTL):
> - use of UCLIBC_MUTEX_xxx macros
> - build system rework (better dependency checking)
> - new way to make and install headers
> - smallint stuff
> - string.h, libc_hidden_proto and related changes
> - other cleanups, warning reduction, cosmetic fixes
> - other recent work by vda, aldot, myself and others.
> 
> There some other pending works I'll posr for inclusion to trunk
> that will be included into nptl too
> 
> - rework of _dl_iterate_phdr (a my old patch never included)
> - optimized memcpy for sh4
> - recent changes on test build system due to hidden_proto change in string.h
> - integration of futexes with UCLIBC_MUTEX_xxx macros for IO locking
> 
> The NPTL branch is compiling fine again (please wait until my last commit)
> and it is under testing on sh4 heavily.
> I'd expect some regressions due this huge set of changes.
> 
> Just to ensure all the NPTL is alive :-)
> I'll be back with other updates (after my next week holiday :-) )

I propose creating 0.9.30 branch shortly after NPTL merge.
Call it 0.9.30_rc1 or 0.9.30.0 or whatever, announce it on http://uclibc.org/
and let people iron out bugs.

Mike, what would you say?
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vda