On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Bryan Kadzban <br...@kadzban.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> --enable-kernel=VERSION compile for compatibility with kernel not older than >> VERSION > > Yes: abort any program at startup if the current kernel version is less > than VERSION, and also remove any workarounds included in the glibc > sources for kernels older than VERSION (if any). > >> but I found >> http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-dev-pub...@archlinux.org/msg08016.html >> >> which says: The minimum kernel version required for glibc was bumped from >> 2.6.16 to 2.6.18 > > That's an Arch decision (made by their maintainer), not something that > applies to glibc itself. :-) See: > > http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/glibc/repos/core-x86_64/PKGBUILD?r1=36985&r2=39100 > > for the actual change in their PKGBUILD script. (The section labeled > "line 62".)
A more authoritative measure here would be to follow fedora since they are the glibc maintainers. Unfortunately, there's no real rationale, but their version is 2.6.18 made with this change: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/glibc/devel/glibc.spec?view=diff&r1=1.376&r2=1.377 Probably would be best to investigate why that is before making a change like that. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
