glibc 2.6 question

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

Monday 24 of September 2007 14:36:05 Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> Monday 24 of September 2007 00:29:54 Moritz Heiber wrote:
> > Okay, a quick followup on all glibc related update questions:
> >
> > I'd love to bump glibc. Infact, we really have to bump it. Applications
> > are starting to break because we're using a very old glibc. Yet, there
> > are two things that need to be done in order for glibc to be bumped:
> >
> > 1) We need a new kernel-headers-2.6 module. Right now, there's a module
> > in crater/ that packs up your current kernel sources, sanitizes them
> > and puts them into /usr/include/ ... which is what we need basically.
> > The problem is: the headers have to match the ones glibc is compiled
> > against. Thus I propose that we pack up our new headers alongside the
> > glibc bump and put it on our servers. That way, people updating glibc
> > will also get the latest kernel headers which we prepared.
>
> BTW: I found in a book about Linux, in chapter about compiling linux-2.0.36
> kernel something like that (procedure before make menuconfig):
>
> cd /usr/include
> rm -rf asm linux scsi
> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux

It looks it was taken first from this:
http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/05.09.shtml

zbiggy