Re: PATCH: allow 2.6 to build on old old setups

David S. Miller
2003-07-28T14:14:06Z

On 28 Jul 2003 12:30:59 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Llu, 2003-07-28 at 02:52, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > info->hdr->e_machine == EM_SPARCV9) {
> > > /* Ignore register directives. */
> > > if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) == STT_REGISTER)
> > > break;
> > > }
> > > +#endif
> >
> > This change is wrong.
> >
> > If you're going to do this, it's much better to define it to the
> > correct value in this case (which is decimal '13').
>
> Its sparc specific stuff so presumably all sparc stuff had the register?
> I can change and resubmit though - no problem

The situation is that, on every platform, one gets the define in
/usr/include/elf.h, it's just that older glibc's lack the define.