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SubjectRe: [PATCH] asm*/resource.h fix for glibc
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> > Use configure. Add a note to the readme(make KSRC=/path/to/foo/include).
> >
> > How often do you compile other programs and not have to modify some system
> > dependant setting?
>
> Almost always. It's either `make', `./configure; make', or `gcc -o foo
> foo.c'. I can't remember the last time I had to use a system dependent
> setting for the build process. (Configuration is a different matter).
>
> In this case `./configure' wouldn't be enough because, well, where are
> your kernel header files? OTOH it would work much of the time to check
> that <linux/version.h> and <linux/config.h> match the running kernel
> version, in either /usr/include/linux or /usr/src/linux/include/linux.
>
> A bit of a pain for those one C source file distributions though.
>
> > Are you saying all systems are alike? Where's the fun in that?
>
> I like to keep things easy for the folks who use my software.

Only unstable kernels would be changing so fast as to make following them and
keeping systems in sync difficult. So when compiling utility programs for
those special consideration needs to be made.

However, compiling for stable kernels should always give you a sane
environment. With debian, are glibc is currently compiled against
2.2.13(well, in potato).

Anyone compiling and writing utility progs for unstable kernels needs to know
that having to upgrade to the latest unstable kernel is not always
possible(1).

>
> -- Jamie
>


1: I can't run any 2.3 kernels right now, because my network card is a
macronix, that only works with tulip 0.90. Before Alan Cox added that
driver to 2.2, I was just dropping in Donald Becker's tulip.c in. I can't
do that in 2.3.

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