Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 1996 23:56:13 +0200 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: Horrible things with 1.3.78 |
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Eric Youngdale:
: On Mar 26, 9:31pm, David Engel wrote: : > Subject: Re: Horrible things with 1.3.78 : > > I surely hope that it will be possible to convince HJLu that : > > the libc includes should be distributed together with a copy : > > of the kernel includes, for some appropriate kernel version
: > You have my support. I suggested pretty much the same thing a few : > weeks ago but nobody responded.
: This may help people who work on the library, but it would be a : royal pain for people who hack the kernel. Consider that if you : upgrade your kernel, you would have to remember to update your : /usr/include tree before you could build it.
Eric, are you a kernel hacker? Surely you know that the kernel is independent of the libc includes?
The failure of 1.3.78 may have caused some confusion, but the kernel source is self-contained. Only the things compiled by HOSTCC (like drivers/sound/configure, menuconfig etc.) depend on the HOST gcc environment, but this host need not even be a Unix system. Certainly it will not depend on recent Linux features.
Andries
[PS Part of the failure of 1.3.78 was caused by the Makefile bug HOSTCC =gcc -I$(HPATH) instead of HOSTCC =gcc .]
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