On 9/18/06, Thomas Trepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... Next major change will be the kernel headers. > That's another discussion, though. I think we should start it! IMHO the -rc7 is what we can expect in 2.6.18. With the -rc7, I actually built a system on my laptop (500MHz-PIII yawn!). On my server, an installation using -rc5 is up and running (KDE, cdrtools, sound, Samba, Apache, PostgreSQL, xine, etc.pp...)
Good to hear. When linux-2.6.18 comes out I'll have another look. However, things keep changing slightly here and there. For instance, util-linux either needs a patch or doesn't depending on what day of the week it is: http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2006-September/000870.html There's also the issue that some packages that might still compile with these headers should rather be including the glibc headers. For instance, a few months back, Jim Gifford brought up how the page.h from Linux is way different than the page.h provided by linux-libc-headers and doesn't include the needed functionality. This will be more difficult to spot.
Be carefull with the headers_install target. It cleans the destination first and than installs the headers into. Previously installed headers got lost.
Try using INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/some/other/dir so you don't wallop what's there already. Then you can do any post-processing, too. I'll be interested to see what Fedora does with these headers because they're using them already. Rawhide is using a 2.6.17 version from a couple months ago and ripping out a few after the fact. Some things have changed upstream since then, though. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
