Matthew Burgess wrote: >> I'm not sure about that. We are not building glibc against the host >> kernel. We are using the most recent headers from section 6.7. By >> specifying --enable-kernel= we are only telling the build system what >> features to use. > > Yes, I understand that. However, when it comes to running the tests in > chapter 6, we haven't yet rebooted into the LFS kernel yet. Therefore, > the test results will obviously depend on whether or not the features > they are testing for are available in the host kernel or not. > > For example, assume the host has a 2.6.22.5 kernel (our current earliest > supported version). If we then specify --enable-kernel=2.6.30 to the > chapter 6 Glibc build, that Glibc may contain features that are only > available in 2.6.30 kernels and provides no fallbacks for the > 2.6.22.5 version. At that point, running the tests or even trying to > run any of the binaries linked against that version of Glibc could fail > if they happen to touch those bits of Glibc that only support Linux >= > 2.6.30. So, basically, if we bump the --enable-kernel parameter, we > also need to bump the host system requirements.
OK, so do we use 2.6.30.2 (LFS-6.5)? Do we need to update any other packages in the requirements or make everything from LFS-6.5 (Aug 2009)? Right now, the minimum requirements are from LFS-6.3 (Aug 2007). -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
