Re: Release on April 18th?

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1812 bytes --]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:58:50AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Hi Efraim,
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
> 
> > I wanted an Easy Win™ and I've pushed a branch wip-ppc64le-for-master,
> > which cherry-picked (I think) all of the powerpc64le commits and
> > adjusted them to work against master WITHOUT affecting other
> > architectures.
> 
> It looks like you modified "gnu: glibc: Fix ldd path on powerpc" and
> "gnu: gcc-4.7: On powerpc64le, fix /lib64 references" to avoid changing
> the package definitions on other architectures.  That might work out;
> I'll try testing it on my hardware and report back.  Believe me, I'd be
> happy to have powerpc64le-linux working on any branch.
> 
> However, the moment master and core-updates are integrated with one
> another, glibc will be upgraded upgraded from 2.31 to 2.32, and it will
> be necessary to upgrade GCC, also.  I don't think there's any way around
> that.  If possible, I'd really prefer not to hide that big of a change
> behind an "if powerpc64le-linux" statement, since I don't like the idea
> of having to deal with unique failures on powerpc64le-linux that might
> stem from using a different GCC version than the rest of Guix.  It is
> good to be consistent with other architectures, when we can be.  Then we
> can share the same problems and help fix them together.
> 

My plan was absolutely to merge master into core-updates after and then
integrate all the changes into their affected packages. I'd also make
sure to bump gcc to 8 (assuming we don't go straight to 9).


-- 
Efraim Flashner   <efraim@flashner.co.il>   אפרים פלשנר
GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D  14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351
Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted

[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]