Messages in this thread | | | From | "Eric Youngdale" <> | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:29:17 -0500 | Subject | Re: Horrible things with 1.3.78 |
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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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