Re: Unable to build bash

From: Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 19:23:13 EST


In <m2k8lmna9z.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk> Graham Murray (graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Graham Murray <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk> writes:

>> I am using kernel 2.3.36, and I am no longer able to build bash. I get

> Sorry to follow up to my own message, but further experiment has shown
> that it is almost certainly a kernel change which has caused this -
> though I do not know if the problem is in bash or the kernel changes.

> I have now put 2.2.14 in /usr/linux (and configured but NOT built it)
> and bash now builds perfectly. So with 2.2.14 headers it builds, but
> with 2.3.35/6 it does not.

It's glibc's fault then. Kernel keaders should be NEVER used in "normal"
(=portable) userspace programs... Unfortunatelly glibc still uses quite a
few "live" headers from kernel sources...

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