Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-15 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Don, 2006-03-16 at 00:41 +0100, Jörg W Mittag wrote: > Jim Gifford wrote: > > Some type of userspace setup is planned for 2.7, just no details at this > > time. > > Could you give some more specifics on that? I, too, remeber that > there was indeed something planned for 2.7, but that was waaa

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-15 Thread Jörg W Mittag
Jim Gifford wrote: > Some type of userspace setup is planned for 2.7, just no details at this > time. Could you give some more specifics on that? I, too, remeber that there was indeed something planned for 2.7, but that was waaay back when there was gonna *be* a 2.7. Now we know that there won'

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, J�rg Billeter wrote: I've now built about 550 packages on x86 and on x86_64 with my generated header set and besides the few problems already mentioned before I've got only two additional problems in the last 300 packages (one needed header was missing and I had to add --wit

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-15 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mit, 2006-03-15 at 21:06 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Roger Blake wrote: > > > Although the script might be a good *short term* plan I think an adequate > > long term solution requires a complete evaluation of *each* header - > > identifying what code to delete or include.

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-15 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mit, 2006-03-15 at 20:02 +, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Unfortunately, as Jurg points out earlier in this thread, there are > plenty of headers that are missing those guards and I'm not entirely > sure that such guards are a complete solution (if they were I don't > think all the hairy looki

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-15 Thread Jim Gifford
Some type of userspace setup is planned for 2.7, just no details at this time. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the abo

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Roger Blake wrote: Although the script might be a good *short term* plan I think an adequate long term solution requires a complete evaluation of *each* header - identifying what code to delete or include. From what I can see the majority of these headers are NOT required

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Thomas Reitelbach wrote: My thought of the logic: content of mykernelheader.h: <...> /* BEGIN USERSPACE HEADER */ ... ...some header important for userspace... ... /* END USERSPACE HEADER */ <...> If think that's essentially what the #ifdef __KERNEL__ guards do in

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-15 Thread Thomas Reitelbach
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 19:36, Roger Blake wrote: > >Having done some research on this, Jim's script (with all the help he's > >been getting on the lists and IRC) looks like the best bet. It's also > >the 'Right Way Forward' (tm), as it will deal with the increasing > >complexity of the Lin

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2006-03-15 Thread Roger Blake
>Having done some research on this, Jim's script (with all the help he's >been getting on the lists and IRC) looks like the best bet. It's also >the 'Right Way Forward' (tm), as it will deal with the increasing >complexity of the Linux kernel. The trick will be making it work for >all the arches

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-14 Thread Richard A Downing
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Richard A Downing FBCS CITP wrote: >> Well, that's that then. > > Indeed :-( Thanks to you and George for forwarding the news on. > > My own naive take on this is that Jim and co. should aim towards getting > the santizing script into a state suitable for review on LKML

Re: [Fwd: [llh-announce] [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers dead]

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
Richard A Downing FBCS CITP wrote: Well, that's that then. Indeed :-( Thanks to you and George for forwarding the news on. My own naive take on this is that Jim and co. should aim towards getting the santizing script into a state suitable for review on LKML and have it added to the kernel t

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2006-03-14 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Well, that's that then. Over to you Jim, mate. R. -- Richard A Downing FBCS CITP http://www.langside.org.uk PGP fingerprint: D682 49A5 7050 E781 229C A2F0 DE1F C040 DE78 53E8 --- Begin Message --- LLH hasn't seen a new release for a lot more than six months now and up until today I hoped to g