>>>>> "david" == David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
david> --- Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> running a glibc and different kernel-headers for the
>> ones that you
>> used to compile glibc can harm.
david> Do you happen to know how? I know that's the reason
david> always given, but I've done it for years with no
david> problems. Also, you could still do it the way you're
david> doing it without putting kernel-headers in glibc's SRPM.
Hi
glibc is supposed to work with several kernels. In particular
it hands things like running on top of kernel 2.2 & kernel
2.4. Some structs & other ABIs have changed bettewn then (and
in the middle of the 2.4 series). If you glibc is compiling
thinking that sizeof(struct foo) = 64 and then you change
kernel-headers and sizeof(struct foo) = 70, you have just
broken any application that uses a library compiled against
glibc with old hearders and the new compiled code.
Later, Juan.
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