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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] 2.6.0-test10 sorcery rebuild -> 51 failed spells
  • Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:33:24 +0100

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:20:50PM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:38:24PM -0600, Robin Cook wrote:
> > I have been running on the 2.6 kernels for a while now and my glibc is
> > compiled against the 2.6 kernel. So far there is no fix for this as I
> > have gone round and round with developers of several spells and always
> > comes down to you should be using the 2.4 headers. So I guess until the
> > 2.6 kernel header become the standard and the programs get updated to
> > use them I'll just keep doing what I have been. As mentioned earlier is
> > I keep a 2.4 kernel around to change the /usr/src/linux link whenever I
> > encounter a spell that doesn't compile against the 2.6 kernels.
> >
> > CuZnDragon
> > Robin Cook
>
> Do you remember which ones break and because of what header? I think i
> managed to get fb.h and videodev.h fixed, currently trying with several
> of my spells.

Replying to myself here, one of the spells that fail is strace, i just
tried to get the headers in a shape to get strace compiled, but that's
basically impossible. So until app and kernel developers come to some
agreement the only solution is having 2.4 kernel headers around for
compilation :(

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Arwed v. Merkatz
Grimoire Guru for video
Grimoire Guru for xfce
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