Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:28:34 +0200 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: older kernels + new glibc? |
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:26:00PM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > On Mar 29, 2004, at 1:22 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 23:09, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > >>We have the source of the drivers, but they are specific to the 2.2.x > >>kernels. I am not a kernel hacker, and this would be way beyond my > >>area of expertise. > >> > >>And sadly, this doesn't answer the initial question. > > > >then to answer your question; at compile time you tell glibc what > >minimum kernel version it can assume, and based on that glibc will > >enable/disable certain features. So it depends on what your distro > >supplied there if it'll work or not. if you tell glibc that at minimum > >you do 2.4.1 for example, then no a 2.2 kernel won't work. I think most > >distros do this (or an even later version) since a few years now. > > perfect - where does this variable get set? sorry for what now seems > like OT glibc stuff.
it's passed to glibc ./configure at build time; if you have an rpm based distro you'll see it in the specfile of the src.rpm [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
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