Re: [uml-devel] [Bug 49277] Compile of usermode-sources-2.6.x fails

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, blaisorblade@yahoo.it gibbered uncontrollably:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 17:54, Nix wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, blaisorblade@yahoo.it said:
>> > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 16:31, Nix wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, bugzilla-daemon@gentoo.org gibbered uncontrollably:
>> >> > Ok, I hope there is still somebody using UML on a NPTL-only system.
>> >> > The workaround suggested last time was to avoid enabling
>> >> > CONFIG_MODE_TT; now I think I've got over this problem, too. So, when
>> >> > I release 2.6.11.8-bs6 (which will happen very shortly, I hope), I'd
>> >> > like to get some testing from you about this issue.
>> >>
>> >> I can give it a try if you like.
>> >>
>> >> (That's a MODE_TT build on a system with NPTL headers, right?)
>> >
>> > With NPTL-only glibc, I meant (and I guess you mean too).
> 
>> Well, I've got a dual non-NPTL glibc in /lib and NPTL glibc in /lib/tls,
>> but I can force use of either,
> Even for static linking? In this case, strange setup.

Yes.

>                                                       If dynamic linking, it 
> already worked, when you used dynamic linking i.e. disabled SKAS.

OK, so it's a -static TT build that's failing?

Will try.

>> and the headers, 
> Different headers too? I didn't know that (and it makes me suspicious about 
> binary compatibility).

Yeah, the headers differ. There *are* some binary compatibility
problems, mostly in the area of thread cancellation, but in that case
Ulrich would probably say that build-against-NPTL-run-against-LinuxThreads
is not officially supported for much the same reason as build-against-
2.3.5-run-against-2.2.4 is unsupported...

>> This is
>> <http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/guest/uml-2.6.11.8-bs
>>6/uml-2.6.11.8-bs6.patch.bz2>, right?
> 
> Not sure about that... I uploaded and destroyed it multiple times, so here's 
> the MD5 of the current version:
> 
> md5sum uml-2.6.11.8-bs6.patch.bz2
> 1a6868d70c7af75f3375eba3b7dfd466  uml-2.6.11.8-bs6.patch.bz2

That matches the MD5 of that patch. (The one wot doesn't work. ;} See
other mail.)

>>(It looks like it was uploaded only a few minutes ago in some time
>>zone quite divergent from either of ours. :) )
> Hmm, the first upload was done during this night, so I guess it was not a 
> timezone problem but an actual crazy boy fixing sucking compile errors at a 
> late time.

Gosh, I can't imagine anyone here doing anything like that.

[fixed one bug in a local administrative script at 04:00 this morning...
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