[Gllug] New kernel compile probs

[David Damerell]

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.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug