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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:39:17 -0400
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Release prep for 1.2.1, and afterwards
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 4:58 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>
> I'm about to do last work of merging mallocng, followed soon by
> release. Is there anything in the way of overlooked bug reports or
> patches that should still be addressed in this release cycle?
>
> Things I'm aware of:
>
> - "Proposal to match behaviour of gethostbyname to glibc". Latest
> patch is probably ok, but could be deferred to after release.
>
> - nsz's new sqrt{,f,l}. I'm hesitant to do all three right away
> without time to test, but replacing sqrtl.c could be appropriate
> since the current one is badly broken on archs with ld wider than
> double. However it would need to accept ld80 in order not to be
> build-breaking on m68k, or m68k would need an alternative.
>
> and some more with open questions or work to be done that can't be
> finished now but should be revisited after release:
>
> - fenv overhaul (sorry for dropping this, Damian)
> - PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NONRECURSIVE_NP
> - _SC_NPROCESSORS_{CONF,ONLN} behavior
> - hexagon port
> - rv32 port
> - arm fdpic (newly revived interest from users on list)
> - dni (dynamic linking without PT_INTERP absolute path) & related ldso
> work by rcombs
> - "lutimes: Add checks for input parameters"
It would be nice to see runpath logic loosened up a bit. That is,
don't reject multiple runpaths if one is bad.
This is needed for packages like Perl. Perls screws up rpaths and
runpaths badly. Perl does not escape origin-based paths properly when
setting them in a makefile. Worse, Perl builds makefiles on the fly,
so we cannot manually fix the makefiles after configure.
Jeff
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