On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 16:44, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2002, Michel D�nzer wrote:
>
> > On Son, 2002-10-20 at 23:57, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> > > On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Boris wrote:
>
> > > > > > Hmm, Seems to be alot of problems in the CVS the last few days. Heres
> > > > > > the latest one.
>
> > > [elided]
>
> > > > > Recently upgraded to a 2.5.42+ kernel did we? If so, harp about this on
> > > > > LKML. Let me know what the outcome is.
>
> > > > Actually, I just recompiled my 2.4.20pre11 kernel and redownloaded the
> > > > latest XFree cvs and I *still* get the same error when doing a "make
> > > > install". Im running 2.4.20pre11, gcc 3.2, glibc 2.3.1.
>
> > > Sounds like your /usr/include/{linnux,asm} links are still pointing into
> > > the 2.5.43 kernel.
>
> > ... but they shouldn't be links to kernel headers at all, but normal
> > glibc headers. There wouldn't have been a problem in the first place
> > like that.
>
> That the new header is being picked up seems the only viable explanantion
> for the reported symptom. How it got there is irrelevant. Perhaps
> re-installing glibc from source re-syncs the headers, I don't know. Or,
> possibly, this system simply does not implement the glibc/kernel version
> skew some distributions are so prone to.
I'm sure you mean the sane technical solution explained in
http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.3/0587.html ?
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Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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