From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:37:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([IPv6:::ffff:204.127.202.55]:27058 "EHLO sccrmhc11.comcast.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:37:39 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (pcp05077810pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net[68.54.246.193]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005022414372801100stlu3e>; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:37:29 +0000 Message-ID: <421DE686.6040003@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:36:54 -0500 From: Kumba User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" CC: libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Building GLIBC 2.3.4 on MIPS References: <421BCF34.90308@jg555.com> <421BD616.4030101@avtrex.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 7332 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: kumba@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > The culprit is elsewhere. The glibc's syscall number translator script > doesn't work with asm-mips/unistd.h as of Linux 2.6 (you could have > probably used 2.4 headers instead; I'm not sure if that is compatible with > "--enable-kernel=2.6.0", though). A correct fix has been prepared and > proposed by Richard Sandiford and is available here: > "http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2004-11/msg00097.html". I would > expect this patch to have been applied before 2.3.4, but apparently this > hasn't happened. That's regrettable and I fear it's the result of glibc > being somewhat inadequately maintained for MIPS/Linux these days, sigh... > > I'm not sure what the maintenance plan is for the 2.3 branch of glibc, > but if 2.3.5 is ever going to happen, the Richard's patch is one of the > must-have additions. > > Maciej The debian patch I referenced is what we require for glibc to generate a proper syscalls.h for 2.4 kernels. Unknown on the 2.6 kernel front how that patch affects things. I'll have to see if this patch affects/changes anything for either headers version. --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond