Bug 463387

Summary: [LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201154:LoP Upgrade to glibc 2.7+
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: glibcAssignee: Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Petr Muller <pmuller>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.0CC: ejratl, fweimer, jakub, jjarvis, notting, ohudlick, pmuller, snagar, syeghiay
Target Milestone: alphaKeywords: FutureFeature
Target Release: 6.0   
Hardware: ppc64   
OS: All   
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Fixed In Version: glibc-2.11-1 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2010-11-11 14:39:28 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 356741, 486594, 554559    

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-09-23 04:00:50 UTC
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Emily J. Ratliff <emilyr.com> - 2008-09-17 17:23 EDT
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201154]
a. Name of Feature:	LoP Upgrade to glibc 2.7+ 
b. Feature Description
Companion request to the request to update GCC-4.3 contains Decimal Floating
Point support plus many additional optimizations useful to POWER. This request
is for updating glibc to 2.7 or higher.

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	PPC
Architectures:
ppc64

Arch Specificity: Both
Affects Toolchain: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	Toolchain
Request Type:	Package - Update Version
d. Upstream Acceptance:	Accepted
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	no
g. Component Version Target:	GCC-4.3, binutils-2.18, GLIBC-2.7+
Performance Assistance:	yes

3. Business Case
Support multiple POWER6/7 features while minimizing backports

Benefits
Performance improvements for POWER6/7 customers, direct support for POWER6/7
hardware features.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Michael Hohnbaum, hbaum.com, 503-578-5486

Technical contact(s):
Steve Munroe, sjmunroe.com

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2008-10-02 17:37:42 UTC
The feature requested has already been accepted into the upstream code base
planned for the next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

When the next milestone release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is available,
please verify that the feature requested is present and functioning as
desired.

Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-03-02 20:21:47 UTC
RHEL6 will be using GLIBC version 2.10, so we are all set here.

Comment 3 Jakub Jelinek 2009-09-22 09:30:37 UTC
glibc 2.11, anyway, that is still > 2.7.

Comment 7 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-05-07 20:21:40 UTC
------- Comment From rsa.com 2010-05-07 16:14 EDT-------
Verified in RHEL-6.0-Snapshot-2
ls -la /lib
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root 1948248 Feb 25 07:34 libc-2.11.1.so

Comment 9 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-11 14:39:28 UTC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.