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Re: Support for glibc 2.35


From: Olivier Dion
Subject: Re: Support for glibc 2.35
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 22:03:14 -0400

On Wed, 06 Apr 2022, Zhu Zihao <all_but_last@163.com> wrote:
> Olivier Dion via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." 
> <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:

>> I would like to know if there's plan to add glibc@2.35 soon to the
>> guix channel?
>
> I'm afraid not. Bumping the version of glibc is not a trivial package
> update in Guix, it means almost all packages need to rebuild (rebuild
> the world).
>
> If you really need it, you may inherit from a existing glibc package,
> update to 2.35 and use it. But you may need extra patches to make it
> work well.

I see.  Well then I guess I will have to go that way then.

> I'd suggest you use docker and run some distro with glibc 2.35(FWIK
> Archlinux).

Can't do that.  I need guix for its reproductibility. 

-- 
Olivier Dion
oldiob.dev



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