Wishfull Thinking (SPARC)

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 11:43 -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:


> > Building NPTL for sparcv9 requires glibc-kernheaders to be 2.6, not 2.4.
> > This also requires patching of things like util-linux and rhpl.
> 
> Not true.  It can use the same glibc-kernheaders as all other Fedora/RHEL3
> arches.  The thing is just that asm-sparc*/unistd.h needs to be updated
> with the newly added syscalls, nothing else.

Ah. OK. Still, I don't see any reason to keep using the 2.4 headers if
2.6 is the direction going forward, especially since the only things
affected so far have been glibc (duh), util-linux, and rhpl. In fact,
Arjan said at one point that he intended to move the headers to 2.6. :)

~spot
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