On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 19:41 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 26 March 2007, Al Stone wrote:
> > My initial thought was to create a new configuration variable
> > (UCLIBC_DEBIAN_WORKAROUND?) that's off by default, with an #ifdef
> > in sysdeps/linux/$ARCH/kernel_types.h around the duplicate --
> > just removing the additional typedef doesn't seem like a good
> > idea since it would likely break builds on non-Debian systems.
> 
> yikes !  we dont want to have any distro-specific stuff in uClibc in any of 
> the source files that go into the library ... especially not any transient 
> ones ...

...and hence the question.  It sure _seemed_ like a bad idea.

> > Is there a better/preferred way to handle such things?  In the
> > meantime, Debian bug#415095 has also been filed with a patch that
> > includes a fix for the problem, but I'd rather not depend on the
> > Debian release schedules to be able to get uClibc working....
> 
> i guess you're building uClibc on ia64 and by using `gcc` rather than a 
> dedicated cross-compiler ... tbh, i think your best course of action is to 
> grab linux-2.6.20 and run `make headers_install` yourself and then point the 
> uClibc build system at that

D'oh.  Right -- I'm building where host == target.  OTOH, leave it
to me to forget the obvious solution, which I was going to need to
do later anyway.  Must get more coffee....

-- 
Ciao,
al
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Al Stone                                      Alter Ego:
Open Source and Linux R&D                     Debian Developer
Hewlett-Packard Company                       http://www.debian.org
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