On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:42:37PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Eelco Dolstra > <eelco.dols...@logicblox.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 19/11/12 15:28, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > > > >>>> But I imagine Eelco wants glibc to be built for 3.5 kernels or above. > >>> > >>> Stdenv has "--enable-kernel=2.6.35". > >> > >> Do you favour a higher value? > > > > Is there a good reason for a higher value? Certainly it can't be higher > > than > > 3.2 since that's our default kernel. And of course people may well want to > > run > > Nixpkgs on Linux distributions that have much older kernels. > I would still opt for choosing --enable-kernel=3.2 (our current default > kernel) > That way, people can keep on using their old/current kernels on stdenv > merge, and on every future stdenv-upgrade we move this number up to > the previous default kernel version. > > A glibc-compat package (with --enable-kernel=2.6.16, which is > glibc2.17's minimum anyway) will probably do the trick for people who > want to test old kernel configs (yes this will cause rebuilds for > them, but I think most usecases for these setup aren't that big and > don't change too often)
The whole proposal sounds perfect to me. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
