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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Lev Lvovsky <lists1@sonous.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: older kernels + new glibc?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:36:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040329213650.GC26854@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D8E351AF-81C8-11D8-A0A8-000A959DCC8C@sonous.com>

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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:34:23PM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> 
> On Mar 29, 2004, at 1:28 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>perfect - where does this variable get set?  sorry for what now seems
> >>like OT glibc stuff.
> >
> >it's passed to glibc ./configure at build time; if you have an rpm 
> >based
> >distro you'll see it in the specfile of the src.rpm
> 
> ok, so this presents a bit of a problem in that case (assuming I'm 
> understanding you) - I'm working backwards in this respect, as I'm 
> using the "new" version of glibc, and an older version of the kernel 
> than the one that glibc was told to remain compatible with - the 
> important question, is does this order of operations (possibly) break 
> things, or does the fact that I compiled the kernel on this new version 
> of glibc remove any issues.

glibc will just plain refuse to operate (correctly). glibc makes assumptions
about not needing workarounds for older kernels if you tell it it can assume
a newer kernel...

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-29 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-29 20:40 older kernels + new glibc? Lev Lvovsky
2004-03-29 21:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-29 21:09   ` Lev Lvovsky
2004-03-29 21:22     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-29 21:26       ` Lev Lvovsky
2004-03-29 21:28         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-29 21:34           ` Lev Lvovsky
2004-03-29 21:36             ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-03-29 21:45             ` Chris Meadors
2004-03-29 23:03             ` David T Hollis
2004-03-30 15:07       ` Adrian Bunk
2004-03-31  0:54         ` GOTO Masanori
2004-03-29 21:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-29 21:36   ` Lev Lvovsky
2004-03-29 21:50     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-29 21:55       ` Lev Lvovsky
2004-03-29 22:10         ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-29 22:55           ` Lev Lvovsky
2004-03-30 12:19             ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-29 22:27   ` DervishD
2004-03-29 23:55     ` Matthew Reppert
2004-03-30  0:09       ` Lev Lvovsky
2004-03-30 14:50       ` DervishD
2004-03-30 15:15         ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-30 17:10           ` DervishD
2004-03-30 12:16     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-30 15:20       ` DervishD

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