Re: [PATCH] 'make headers_install' kbuild target.

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Friday 28 April 2006 2:27 pm, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 14:15 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Fedora recently migrated from a linux-kernel-headers package that smells
> > a bit like Mazur's to the glibc-kernheaders package.
>
> Fedora used to be on an ancient version of the headers, forked and
> manually sanitised from 2.4 some time ago and manually (but
> inconsistently) updated to date with new syscalls &c as and when bugs
> got filed against the package.
>
> As of two days ago, Fedora is using the result of 'make headers_install'
> instead. Speaking as maintainer of Fedora's glibc-kernheaders, I think
> it's a massive improvement,
>
> Other distributions look like they should be able to change too -- the
> whole point in approaching them before implementing this was to confirm
> that they'd be happy with it. I don't know _when_ that'll happen though.
> Obviously it makes sense for them to wait while I use Fedora rawhide as
> a test bed.

I'm not waiting. :)

I'm making a cross-compiler for ARM (by hand, figuring out how to do it), and 
I have a whole weekend to thump on it.  I want to build a kernel, uClibc, and 
busybox, and get them to boot under qemu-system-arm.  That will be the "ok, 
declare victory and document what I just did" moment.

I'll let you know what breaks.  (I have Mazur's old 2.6.12 here for 
comparison, so I may even have patches.  You never know... :)

Rob
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