[OE-core] [yocto] [RFT] upcoming glibc 2.21 and gcc 4.9 upgrade

[Khem Raj]

> On Feb 23, 2015, at 10:59 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Feb 21, 2015, at 1:22 AM, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 18:03 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 02:02 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> I have put together upgrade to gcc 4.9.2 as well as glibc 2.21 (
>>>> upcoming ) on  a contrib branch ( top 2 patches) its has not got much
>>>> testing besides x86 qemu thus far.
>>>> 
>>>> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=kraj/gcc-glibc-upgrade
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to request some help in testing these out in your
>>>> respective environments and please report any issues you see so we can
>>>> start sorting them out at earlier and making its way into OE-Core.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your help
>>> 
>>> For info, I've now merged the glibc part of this change now too.
>>> 
>>> Khem: Thanks for the work on this!
>> 
>> New issue that caught my eye:
>> 
>> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-qa-logrotate/builds/204/steps/Running%20Sanity%20Tests/logs/stdio
>> 
>> segfault in init within libc :/.
> 
> I have booted core-image-minimal, for all arches and that have worked fine for both systemd and sysvinit and some of non-oe-core graphic images booted well too
> but here it seems its using core-image-sato wondering what changed there … can someone try it out and may be see what is it trying to launch during boot that is in addition
> to core image minimal.

My core-image-sato/sysvinit booted without crash too ( host is ubuntu 15.04 x86_64)