Re: [patches] [PATCH 1/1] Makefile: split out explicit and implicit rules as required by

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Philip Prindeville wrote:

> On 6/13/11 8:15 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > This patch looks like a backport of FSF glibc commit 
> > 32cf40699346d37fabfa887bbd95e95004799ae1.  In such cases you should make 
> > sure you do backport the patch as exactly as possible - and that your 
> > ChangeLog.eglibc entry includes that from FSF glibc to preserve 
> > accreditation to the original author.
> > 
> > Which branches have this issue?  The general EGLIBC practice is that if a 
> > bug fix is applied on a release branch it's also applied on all subsequent 
> > affected release branches - although FSF glibc doesn't always follow that, 
> > so this may not apply to fixes merged from there.
> > 
> 
> I wasn't aware it had already been fixed, since I was seeing it in 2.8, 
> 2.9, and 2.12.

As far as I can tell the fix has been in 2.11 and 2.12 branches since last 
December, and went in to FSF glibc before 2.13 branched so has always been 
in 2.13 and 2.14.  Versions older than 2.11 aren't really being maintained 
any more, either in EGLIBC or in FSF glibc.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx