From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k: don't comment out syscalls used by glibc Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:45:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:58054 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757135Ab1KKIph (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:45:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Geert Uytterhoeven's message of "Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:28:13 +0100") Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > Hi Andreas, > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 21:34, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Define again the syscalls that are used by glibc so that it is possible to >> compile a feature-complete glibc with the newest kernel headers. > > I'm a bit puzzled by this. What exactly is your objective? To build a glibc that > runs on any possible kernel version ever released? When building glibc it needs to know these numbers. Otherwise only stubs are generated that never try to use them. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."