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SubjectRe: Horrible things with 1.3.78
On Mar 26,  9:31pm, David Engel wrote:
> Subject: Re: Horrible things with 1.3.78
> > I surely hope that it will be possible to convince HJLu that
> > the libc includes should be distributed together with a copy
> > of the kernel includes, for some appropriate kernel version
> > (preferably with the parts between #ifdef __KERNEL__ ... #endif
> > stripped out) and an indication:
> > this libc works with kernel version 1.4.0 and later.
> >
> > Imagine. No more symlinks. No more kernel source required on-line
> > before one can translate something. No more programs that suddenly
> > fail to translate, or show obscure bugs, after updating kernel source.
>
> You have my support. I suggested pretty much the same thing a few
> weeks ago but nobody responded.

This may help people who work on the library, but it would be a
royal
pain for people who hack the kernel. Consider that if you upgrade your
kernel, you would have to remember to update your /usr/include tree
before you could build it.

-Eric

--
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep,
And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."


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