Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263624AbUC3MRs (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:17:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263627AbUC3MRs (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:17:48 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:8835 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263624AbUC3MRq (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:17:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:19:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Lev Lvovsky cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: older kernels + new glibc? In-Reply-To: <35350CCA-81D4-11D8-A0A8-000A959DCC8C@sonous.com> Message-ID: References: <5516F046-81C1-11D8-A0A8-000A959DCC8C@sonous.com> <1CD69E8E-81C9-11D8-A0A8-000A959DCC8C@sonous.com> <35350CCA-81D4-11D8-A0A8-000A959DCC8C@sonous.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1500 Lines: 39 On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:10 PM, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > You didn't care to read what I said? I said to remove those sym-links. > > They must be replaced by headers that were in-use around the time > > the C library code was compiled, preferably the exact same headers. > > > > There must not be any sym-link in the /usr/include/... directories > > pointing to any kernel headers. That way, you can add new kernels > > without ever screwing up your compiler. > > Understood. Incidentally, the glibc-kernheaders package included with > RH 7.3 creates those files as symlinks, I'm sure however that they were > there for the compilation of glibc. The disconnect that I forsee, is > that I will be running the 2.2.26 with kernel headers from a 2.4.x > kernel - would this be the correct thing to do? To be absolutely sure you don't end up making user-mode code that doesn't work, I would remove those sym-links and replace them with the actual headers that are known to work. > > I suppose I mirror the sentiments of DervishD on this from his post. > > -lev > Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/