Gilles Espinasse wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Dubbs" <bruce.du...@gmail.com> To:
>> Using 2.6.18 appears to potentially affect binaries built against kernels >> older than that and run on a LFS-6.5 or later system. I don't see where >> that would be an issue. > No. The issue is that if you have a kernel running on the building machine > older than the version defined in --enable-kernel, building glibc will fail > with 'kernel too old message'. So --enable-kernel primary limit to wich > kernel version is needed to build LFS. So to be clear, if someone want to > build LFS from RHEL-5 or debian etch, 2.6.18 is fine. But on any older > kernel, glibc compilation will fail. > > At least that was I have seen before the switch to cross-compilation. From what I see, the consequence is what you describe, but the reason for the behavior is what I wrote. You've triggered a thought: using 2.6.18 will require a change to the Preface section "Host System Requirements", although it would be relatively easy for someone to back off to an earlier kernel just by specifying a different kernel in the configure line of glibc. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
