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On Friday 08 July 2011 11:12:12 Phil Blundell wrote:
> If OLDEST_KERNEL is set to a value that's too new then the failure you
> get is anything but subtle: glibc will just print "kernel too old" and
> exit.

OK, I had just assumed you would just get errors about missing syscalls, good 
to know that it would be more obvious than that.

> I guess we could enhance that message to refer directly to
> OLDEST_KERNEL to make it a bit more obvious what you need to do.
> Also, we could teach kernel.bbclass to issue a diagnostic if you try to
> build a kernel that's older than OLDEST_KERNEL.

These sound like good ideas. I'll add them to my todo list to have a look at 
if nobody else gets there first.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
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