Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:05:08PM +0200, Thomas Trepl 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...) >> >> > I'm just catching up on today's lkml, and almost the first mail was > a reply to a mail from last week saying that most arches fail the > validation (i.e. they include headers which aren't exported), saying > that there are even more problems - from the sound of it. x86 is one > of the problem arches. I'm sure that this will be fixed eventually, > but I think Linus needs a lot of persuasion that the headers matter, > so 2.6.18 might have problems. > > But thanks for the encouraging news that a desktop can be built > with those headers! Using the in-kernel headers is on my list of > things to try once we've got CLFS-1.0 out. I tested the in kernel headers on mips/alpha/sparc. There were a lot of problems. silo and aboot didn't want to build right. The build had so many errors in it, on all 3 of the archs, That I just walked away. I did have a succesful build on x86 and x86_64. I didn't test arm or hppa.
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