I've put yet another experimental, pre-release of glibc-2.0.6pre4 at
ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux. Please test it and let me know how it
works. The upstream maintainer wants to release this coming Sunday
so I need your feedback as soon as possible.
There is an IMPORTANT CHANGE in this version. I now use the
kernel-headers package instead of including the kernel headers in with
libc6-dev. This does NOT mean that we are reverting back to the old
symlink method since the symlinks point to headers from a specific
kernel-headers-X.Y.Z package, 2.0.32 in this case.
This change has three advantages. First it removes the unnecessary
duplication of kernel header files. Second, different architectures
can more easily use different kernel headers. This is currently a big
problem for m68k. Third, it makes the Debian-specific changes to
glibc small enough that they will be included in the upstream source.
We can, and probably will have to, make changes to the upstream
source, but having the initial Debian-specific files included will
give us additional visibility.
The only architecture I expect to have problems with this arrangement
is m68k. James, would you please check out the new packages and let
me know what KVERSION value to use in debian/rules for m68k.
Herbert, I have a couple of requests for your kernel-headers and
kernel-source packages. First, would you please apply the enclosed
patch from Andreas Jaeger to the 2.0.32 versions. It doesn't appear
to affect the building of glibc for i386, but it could for other
architectures and for user programs. Second (not abosulutely
necessary, but desirable), would you please consider making the
kernel-source-X.Y.Z package provide the appropriate
/usr/src/kernel-headers-X.Y.Z symlink. libc6-dev currently only
depends on kernel-headers-X.Y.Z and has no provision for switching to
kernel-source-X.Y.Z if the user changes between the two.
David
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Hi David,
you've find appended two small patches that are already in
2.0.33-pre2. Those patches are necessary for glibc, you might want to
add them to your kernel includes.
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Hi Linus,
could you please add the following two changes to Linux 2.0.33? The
defines are already made in include/linux/socket.h and are redundant -
and cause problems with glibc.
The first patch is already in Linux 2.1.x - and you've got a patch for
the second one for inclusion in 2.1.71 separately.
Thanks,
Andreas
--- include/linux/ax25.h.~1~ Sat Aug 10 09:03:15 1996
+++ include/linux/ax25.h Thu Dec 4 09:13:44 1997
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
#ifndef AX25_KERNEL_H
#define AX25_KERNEL_H
-#define PF_AX25 AF_AX25
#define AX25_MTU 256
#define AX25_MAX_DIGIS 6 /* This is wrong, should be 8 */
--- include/linux/netrom.h.~1~ Sat Aug 10 09:03:15 1996
+++ include/linux/netrom.h Thu Dec 4 09:14:19 1997
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
#ifndef NETROM_KERNEL_H
#define NETROM_KERNEL_H
-#define PF_NETROM AF_NETROM
#define NETROM_MTU 236
#define NETROM_T1 1
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