Re: Building GLIBC 2.3.4 on MIPS

[Kumba <kumba at gentoo dot org>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  The culprit is elsewhere.  The glibc's syscall number translator script 
> doesn't work with asm-mips/unistd.h as of Linux 2.6 (you could have 
> probably used 2.4 headers instead; I'm not sure if that is compatible with 
> "--enable-kernel=2.6.0", though).  A correct fix has been prepared and 
> proposed by Richard Sandiford and is available here: 
> "http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2004-11/msg00097.html";.  I would 
> expect this patch to have been applied before 2.3.4, but apparently this 
> hasn't happened.  That's regrettable and I fear it's the result of glibc 
> being somewhat inadequately maintained for MIPS/Linux these days, sigh...
>
>  I'm not sure what the maintenance plan is for the 2.3 branch of glibc, 
> but if 2.3.5 is ever going to happen, the Richard's patch is one of the 
> must-have additions.
>
>   Maciej

The debian patch I referenced is what we require for glibc to generate a 
proper syscalls.h for 2.4 kernels.  Unknown on the 2.6 kernel front how that 
patch affects things.  I'll have to see if this patch affects/changes anything 
for either headers version.


--Kumba

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