Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel sources thread

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:46:48PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:16:39 -0400 Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote:
> | > 2)
> | > ayanami portcvs # ldd `which udevd`
> | >         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0000002a9566d000)
> | >         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
> | > (0x0000002a95556000)
> | > ayanami portcvs # emerge udev -pv | grep static
> |
> | udev can be built with the included klibc library, which makes this
> | whole issue moot.  I've been hesitant to change the ebuild to do this,
> | due to ia64 issues with klibc.  Hopefully the next version of klibc
> | (and hence udev) should fix this.  Then I'll enable it for everyone.
>
> Could you USE flag it please? It was screwing up on sparc64 last time I
> tried it (a fair while ago now), so we might need to use.mask it.

Yeah, I'll use the "static" USE flag to enable this.  It should now work
just fine on sparc64, or so the klibc author just told me this week.

I'll make this change next release.

thanks,

greg k-h

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