On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 12:14 PM Maamoun TK maamoun.tk@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 9:05 PM Niels Möller nisse@lysator.liu.se wrote:
Do you have any idea how common such old systems might be?
I don't have a specific number but I think using that old versions of glibc is uncommon specially for POWER8 and above processors considering those versions are more than 8 years old.
PPC64LE Linux is the primary focus of Linux on Power. The PPC64LE ABI specifies Power8 as the minimum ISA. GLIBC 2.16 or higher will be available on all such PPC64LE Linux systems. I doubt that an older, PPC64 Linux big endian system would install the latest libgcrypt and that configuration only is in maintenance mode for customers.
Again, it's your choice, but I would not invest a lot of effort to support such a rare, old configuration that is unlikely to use a new release of libgcrypt.
Thanks, David