Is 2.1.2-0pre2 problematic on 386 processor?
Do to a rash of problems on a pure 386 processor, one of which is linked
to glibc strcpy, I started looking at the debian-glibc mailing list.
I see that a change was made in 2.1.1-13 to debian/sysdeps.mk to add a
cflags variable i386 hack. I do not know the exact change, but I would
guess that the code is commented out in 2.1.2-0pre4. The mailing list
archive implies that this fixed the 386 problems.
In the current 2.1.2-0pre4 the following exists - i.e. commented out.
I do not know what the exact change was to 2.1.1-13, but I suspect that
the code was NOT commented out.
# egcs ends up defining -mcpu=i486 by default, which defines __i486__
# which causes glibc to use the i486-specific inlines. This is a kluge to
# attempt to fix it.
#ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),i386)
#cflags += -mcpu=i386
#endif
Should this be commented out - or was there another fix that complensates?
My initial testing implies that the bug may be back....
So, my question is: was the fix backed out?
Ezra
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