[Gllug] New kernel compile probs

[Nix]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, David Damerell gibbered:
> On , 9 Sep 2001, Nix wrote:
>>On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, David Damerell uttered the following:
>>>                                The idiots at Red Hat crippled their
>>>binaries (or libc?) only to work with a 2.2 kernel or later, but Tom's
>>>now reports the kernel version as 100.x to fool it.]
>>If the kernel version isn't really >=2.2, that is very stupid and *will*
>>break, hard, the first time anything in the libc is used that varies
>>between 2.0.x and 2.2.x. There's a reason libc screams if you're running
>>a too-old kernel; it's not there for annoyance value.
> 
> Eh, if you're using a rescue disc under these circumstances, you
> generally can't get any more screwed; in particular, not being able to
> use the tools on the hard disc _at all_ is almost certainly worse.

What about using them and them malfunctioning grossly?

You can always keep a libc compiled to match the appropriate kernel on
the emergency boot disk!

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