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["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

On 10:53:33 2007-08-10 Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be> wrote:
> On Friday 10 August 2007 10:32:31 Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > wondering what is new with glibc and new headers.
> > We still have glibc 2.4 in test grimoire.
> > Current version is 2.6.1. In devel git we have 2.5.
> > We discussed in Jun that glibc 2.5 should go into test [1].
> > We still use glibc with linux-libc-headers 2.6.12.0 (they are from
> > 2005, unmaintained).
> > New applications need new headers, for example new hal fails with our
> > glibc because of stale headers [2].
> >
> > [1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2007-June/016997.html
> >  [2] 
> > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2007-May/062888.html

> >  
> funny that you should ask this, as I was about to create a bug on the
> same topic.
> 
> I have recently created a local glibc-2.6.1 spell and have rebuilt lots
> of stuff using it, including the latest hal, on both amd32 and amd64.
> 
> 
> Regarding the kernel headers, I ditched them completely and created a
> symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux. spells which are really
> sensitive to this have triggers to recast themselves when linux changes
> anyway.
> 

To bad this would break since we don't require our users to use the linux
spell.

Maybe we could create a linux-headers spell that would run the make
install_headers target from whichever linux one has installed atm...

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