Karl F. Larsen said:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> } And why do you think you need to recompile the AX25 utilities every
> } time you upgrade something else?
> }
> You need to do something. The setup that works fine with kernel
> 2.0.36 fails to work if you simply change to kernel 2.2.5. Since the
> ax25-utils are very tied to the kernel they are effected by changes to the
> kernel.
I would hardly call changing a kernel with a different major number to be
a "simple" change. It is significant. The other significant change is we
are gradually weaning ourselves off the old way of doing things which was to
have lots of #include <linux/blah.h> lines which meant if you changed the
kernel the header files changed.
Of course to do that the information has to go somewhere, it is now found in
glibc headers, specifically glibc 2.1 While developing these libraries, it
was found that there was some missing "stuff" from these headers; the short
story is that the glibc 2.1 people transferred kernel 2.0.34 headers across,
unfortunately there was a major change in the kernel at 2.0.36 (I think
I got these version numbers right). I then let the GNU people know that there
was a problem. They then put the changes in place, if you look in the
glibc changelog, you should find something like:
1999-05-02 Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/netax25/ax25.h: Update from kernel header.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/netrom/netrom.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/netrose/rose.h: Likewise.
Patch by Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
The problem is now is that while Debian is fine, RedHat has yet to get their
collective act together and get a more recent glibc 2.1 There has been
attempts by myself to accomodate this broken header set but it is made
difficult with the fact my libraries are fine.
There is also some kernel 2.2.x issues, mainly about the packet type socket.
The next release will use the "right" ioctl which should fix that.
In summuary, you should treat the new code as alpha, we are still trying to
work the quirks out of the system. I believe the old utils work fine for
kernels 2.0.34, you should probably stick with that unless your sure the
new set is going to work for you.
- Craig
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