Re: [gentoo-dev] bootstrapping with NPTL

[Andrew Gaffney]

Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>
>
> Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>
>> I am currently bootstrapping on another system. I added "nptl" to the
>> USE flags. I started scripts/bootstrap-2.6.sh. It gave me an error
>> about sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.0 being masked so I edited the
>> build and added x86 to KEYWORDS and ran scripts/bootstrap-2.6.sh
>> again. Will this leave me with a from-scratch NPTL-enabled system?
>>
>
> You might want to run this patch on your linux-headers before you try to
> build XFree86.
>
> --- kd.h.orig   2004-02-03 10:51:27.818963120 -0600
> +++ kd.h        2004-02-03 10:51:36.501643152 -0600
> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
>
>  struct kbd_repeat {
>         int delay;      /* in msec; <= 0: don't change */
> -       int period;     /* in msec; <= 0: don't change */
> +       int rate;       /* in msec; <= 0: don't change */
>                         /* earlier this field was misnamed "rate" */
>  };
>
> Of course, you may want to change it back again after you emerge XFree86.
>
> --- kd.h        2004-02-03 10:51:36.501643152 -0600
> +++ kd.h.orig   2004-02-03 10:51:27.818963120 -0600
> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
>
>  struct kbd_repeat {
>         int delay;      /* in msec; <= 0: don't change */
> -       int rate;       /* in msec; <= 0: don't change */
> +       int period;     /* in msec; <= 0: don't change */
>                         /* earlier this field was misnamed "rate" */
>  };
>
>
> I think a kernel specific conditional patch should be included in
> XFree86 as it is unlikely the linux kernel headers are going to change
> back.

Thanks for the heads up on that one.

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Andrew Gaffney
Network Administrator
Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
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