GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Mon, 3 May 2004 18:50:18 +0100, > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > severity 234236 grave > > thanks > > > > This is a grave bug since it keeps about 10-15 packages from building > > on mips. > > Which packages did this bug affect? I agreed with Thiemo's and > Goswin's opinion: > > > I wonder if it would be time to convert fdisk to _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 for > > linux on all archs instead of 32 bit + _llseek hacks. > > > But then, util-linux should use more portable means than kernel headers, > > like the syscall() interface. > > So I don't think it's grave for linux-kernel-headers.
Glibc itself might break as well, probably in non-obvious ways, if built against this version of l-k-h. The patch is obviously correct, and already in the upstream repository (www.linux-mips.org). Thiemo
