Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] embedded profile to uclibc/x86/2.4 --Why not 2.6?
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:18:44
Message-Id: 200505271119.40807.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] embedded profile to uclibc/x86/2.4 --Why not 2.6? by Heath H Holcomb
1 On Friday 27 May 2005 09:35 am, Heath H Holcomb wrote:
2 > Why is the profile linked
3 > to /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/2.4?
4
5 because uClibc is not like glibc ... it is tightly tied to the linux-headers
6 version you compile against
7
8 so if you compile uClibc against 2.6 headers, the resulting code will not
9 properly work in a 2.4 kernel ... however, if you compile uClibc against 2.4
10 headers, the resulting code will work fine in 2.4 and 2.6
11
12 users are free to tweak their env, but when i do releases, i build everything
13 against 2.4 so that users can pick
14 -mike
15
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