What is up with glibc in rawhide?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:31:22 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev at redhat.com> writes:
>>> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:44:45 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>> I did not know that glibc was "broken" until you mentioned it.
>>> Everything works just fine... except Emacs apparently.
>>
>> And mysql, and perhaps rpm according to Panu, and we know not what else
>> that has not got thorough regression tests executed as part of its build.
>
> Indeed, rpm breakage sounds pretty bad.

In this case the breakage was bad enough I seriously doubt anybody has 
managed to build anything with rpm using the broken glibc.i586 versions. 
Rpm fails to even read its configuration in that case, never mind actually 
building something.

 	- Panu -