LSB Telephone Conference: 02/21/2001

Attendance:

• George Kraft, IBM
• Stuart Anderson, Metro Link
• Doug Beattie, SCO
• Kevin Caunt, IBM
• Andrew Pham, IBM
• Lenz Grimmer, SuSE
• Andrew Josey, OpenGroup
• Thorsten Kukuk, SuSE
• Scott McNeil, VA Linux
• Johannes Poehlmann
• Raja Srinivasan, Caldera
• Ted Tso, VA Linux
• Barry Weiss
• Chris Yeoh, Linuxcare

Regrets:

WRITTEN SPECIFICATION

Spec: Milestones

Spec: Tasks

• All action items and unassigned work items must be entered into our task list on Sourceforge. If it is not documented and tracked, then it does not exist. :-)

If you don't have Sourceforge write access, then send an detail action item description to one of the registered LSB users per our LSB how-to contribute.
• 467 APIs undecided in http://lsb.sourceforge.net/  We need to review and send feedback to Stuart.
• Stuart Anderson
• WAITING: glibc v2.2 wait for a new cooked list after review of libdb by Ted, libz by Dan, and libm & libpthread by Andrew.   Need a santiy check of LSB versus glibc v2.2
• UNASSIGNED 26753: The person Stuart had in mind for the job declined.
• DONE: Change in the SPEC to C99 from C90. Stuart to sort the table better.
• ACTIVE:  Add to chapter 9, description of the program interpreter. Point to another spec.
• TODO:  Add a per library index of function interfaces
• TODO: Compare glibc-2.2 against current LSB SPEC database
• Ralf Flaxa
• Review of symbols used in various Linux binaries with focus on symbols used that are not in the current SPEC.
• Action: Sanity check of appchk, etc. Run on existing large applications and analyze results.
• Action: Document current status and send to LSB list via email
• Action: Survey a collection of machines using appchk
• Action: Ask SCO for documentation of ELF specs and to obtain permission to publish
• Action: Check all tools into sourceforge
• Action: Provide appchk output from UW LKP reference applications
• Action: have the LSB's dynamic linker [/lib/ld-lsb.so.1] which *may* be a symbolic reference /lib/ld-linux.so.2
• Action: Will use existing major and minor versioning and filenames.
• Action: Will use existing symbol versions (latest glibc 2.2.1).
• Action 23709: Writeup wrappering spec. and provide a set of examples how this allows patched libraries.
• requires new ld-linux.so.2 and libc.so, then a fixed libsomething.so
• Dan Quinlan
• ACTION 26753: Suggestion made to open a compile environment working group
• Define a procedure to build an LSB compliant application
• First priority to define requirements
• Need to create outline of a spec to work with
• COMPLETED: Dan Quinlan to find URL for libz documentation. A snap shot of this to be placed in LSB code. Per lsb.sourceforge.net review libz
• Action: Dan Quinlan will address the FHS comments in the appropriate documents.
• ACTION 26754: more specific file/directory permissions per Johannes Poehlmann
• Dan Quinlan to finish FHS v2.2 by 2/21.
• Ted Tso
• POST LSB 1.0 26755: Ted to resolve libdb APIs per lsb.sourceforge.net
• Andrew Josey
• COMPLETED: Andrew to send Ted the libdb list from the NY meeting to resolve libdb APIs per lsb.sourceforge.net
• Doug Baetie / Raja S.
• ACTIVE: Produce a list of documents that need to be freed up to produce an IA64 supplement.   Need documentation with limited IP restrictions.
• Doug B./David P.
• ACTIVE: SCO to provide a gABI "final" spec with version number (instead of a work in progress snapshot)
• Chris Yeoh
• COMPLETED: Chris Yeoh to take cu.html and remove unwanted commands, then merge the user & groups commands.
• Added new commands.
• Matt Wilson
• ACTIVE: Matt Wilson to document ctor, dtor, and eh_frame.  Stuart requested more clarification.
• UNASSIGNED
• DEFER: Need to find volunteers to work on this non ia32 supplements. Arch. specific not required for LSB v1.0
• Jim Kingdon
• COMPLETED: check in build instructions.

• George's tasks
• Stuart's tasks
• Quinlan's tasks
• Ted's tasks
• UNASSIGNED tasks

Spec: Bugs

SAMPLE IMPLEMENTATION

Sample: Milestones

Sample: Tasks

• OVER DUE: Ralph to upload to SourceForge the updated sample implementation (aka: LTP).

• UNASSIGNED tasks

Sample: Bugs

MISC

• The next workgroup meeting will be on Monday & Tuesday February 26th and 27th respectively in Ft. Lauderdale FL at Metrolink.
• Agenda for workgroup meeting?
• Telephone Conferences:
• Thursday March 1st, 11:00 AM CST, followup meeting after Florida
• Wednesday March 7th, 11:00 AM CST, action item status meeting
• Wednesday March 14th, 11:00 AM CST, resume our regularly scheduled telephone conference calls

George (gk4)