Re: Planning for 0.8.2

[taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> For those I’ve just reopened core-updates with the intent of freezing it
>> in a couple of days or so.  The changes should be limited to:
>>
>>   1. ld-wrapper bugs fixed (just pushed);
>>
>>   2. libstdc++ not having libgcc_s in its RUNPATH (bug #20358);
>>
>>   3. #:validate-runpath? turned on by default for all the build systems
>>      (currently it’s only gnu-build-system); more broken packages will
>>      become apparent as a result;
>>
>>   4. libc’s own message catalogs are installed (just pushed).
>>
>> I think Eric has a small Perl patch that would be welcome, but that’s
>> about it.
>
> I’m done with these.  If everything is OK, we may want to enable the
> whole set of packages for build on Hydra in the next few days (Mark?).
>
> Ludo’.

There's news on the Qt 5.4/i686 front.  I applied the patch linked to in
<https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-45205> locally and will try
building it now, which should take ~7 hours on my machine IIRC.

Excited for the release. :-)

Taylan