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On Friday 27 May 2005 09:35 am, Heath H Holcomb wrote: |
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> Why is the profile linked |
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> to /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/2.4? |
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because uClibc is not like glibc ... it is tightly tied to the linux-headers |
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version you compile against |
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so if you compile uClibc against 2.6 headers, the resulting code will not |
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properly work in a 2.4 kernel ... however, if you compile uClibc against 2.4 |
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headers, the resulting code will work fine in 2.4 and 2.6 |
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users are free to tweak their env, but when i do releases, i build everything |
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against 2.4 so that users can pick |
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-mike |
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