Re: [gentoo-dev] heads up: glibc-2.20 will require =linux-2.6.32

2014-08-06 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Sun, 03 Aug 2014, Mike Frysinger wrote: upstream glibc has dropped support for older Linux kernels. your choices: - upgrade your kernel - switch to a different C library - stick with glibc-2.19 for a while Also note that 2.6.32 is the oldest longterm kernel. If you use something

[gentoo-dev] heads up: glibc-2.20 will require =linux-2.6.32

2014-08-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
upstream glibc has dropped support for older Linux kernels. your choices: - upgrade your kernel - switch to a different C library - stick with glibc-2.19 for a while be warned though there are no plans atm to backport things to glibc-2.19. this includes security fixes, but more importantly

Re: [gentoo-dev] heads up: glibc-2.20 will require =linux-2.6.32

2014-08-03 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/08/14 16:16, Mike Frysinger wrote: upstream glibc has dropped support for older Linux kernels. your choices: - upgrade your kernel - switch to a different C library - stick with glibc-2.19 for a while be warned though there are no plans atm to backport things to glibc-2.19.