ARC rebootstrap prereq (was Re: switching ARC to 64-bit time_t )

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Vineet,

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 08:17:53PM +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> Checking in to see if things have change since my last posting on this 
> topic.

Appreciated. I would have forgotten about arc.

> Is glibc 2.32 now packaged for debian so we can attempt ARC rebootstrap ?

Unfortunately, no. Debian has started freezing in preparating of the
bullseye release. Only up to version 2.31 is packaged and Aurelien seems
a little busy these days. If I recall correctly, 2.32 drops some
backwards compatibility stuff that Debian still relies on $somewhere,
but is transitioning away already. So it's not just dumping 2.32
together with the 2.31 packaging in experimental.

Before that happens, there is little I can do to help. With 2.31, we
still get:
| checking sysdep dirs... configure: error: The arc is not supported.
I'm still interested in supporting the arc bootstrap. Please get back
with me when we can move on.

You can check Debian's glibc version at
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/glibc at any time in the version column.

Helmut