On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 16:53 +0200, Thilo Fromm wrote: > Hello Guys, > > this is a somewhat cumulated response - I'd like to address some of the > things mentioned at different points in the discussion in one place. > Please forgive me should I misquote things. > > > > Graeme Gregory in <[email protected]>: > > [Steffen Sledz] > > > It seem's not to be possible to use DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_hipox in the > > > linux-libc-headers recipes. So what's the right way to handle this? > > > Something like PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers_hipox = "2.6.24" > > > in angstrom-2008.1.conf? > > > [Graeme Gregory] > > I thought glibc was supposed to gracefully fall back on missing > > syscalls? > > Glibc is compiled against 2.6.31 headers, which is one of our main > issues here. It only ever *runs* with a 2.6.24 kernel on the target > system, though. So it cannot know about missing syscalls until runtime.
So, I think some of the confusion here stems from confusion about (and I don't know the right answer off-hand) how glibc handles the --with-kernel=VERSION stuff. -- Tom Rini <[email protected]> Mentor Graphics Corporation _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
