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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] glibc 2.5 going into test?
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:11:28 +0200

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:38:43AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> <snip>
> > They're missing a current inotify kernel header.
> > Overall they are from some really old kernel. I'm currently
> > experimenting with vanilla kernel headers installed to
> > /usr/include/{linux,asm}. So far I've had to do two tiny syscall
> > patches, other than that everything works. I just need to add the
> > headers to the glibc spell, then I'll publish the branch.
>
> Have you looked into moving the kernel headers outside of glibc, or have
> glibc using whatever is in /usr/src/linux to generate its headers,
> rather than having us generate a tarball of headers? That way we won't
> have to worry about the headers getting old as the linux spell (or the
> user's kernel updates, if they don't use the spell) keeps them up-to-date.

My plan was to use the headers of the current kernel on the system as
long as they can found (can't always find them for custom kernels) and
otherwise some pre-tarballed ones.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
http://www.sourcemage.org




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