building for mips target glibc-headers target

[Arno Schuring]

>>Try the recent 'sanitized headers' patch, attached to
>>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2005-04/msg00066.html
>>That should get rid of the install-headers problem.
>>(I haven't tried it myself yet.)
>>
>>- Dan
> I have looked at this and see these is a linux-2.6.11.2.tar.bz2 file which 
> i can download but i am trying 2.6.11.6 as was the person who started the 
> sanitized patch thread.
>
> Should there be any problems I would expect there to be some. Will i need 
> to create my own patch tree for 2.6.11.6?

The linux-libc-headers version numbering scheme does not correspond 1-to-1 
with the kernel version numbering. FAFAIK, the 2.6.x.y releases are 
incremental bugfixes based on the kernel headers as they were in 2.6.x - in 
this case, 2.6.11.1 - the linux-libc-headers has been using this notation 
from the start (were using it before the kernel numbering scheme was 
changed). I can see how this leads to a lot of confusion now the kernel has 
changed its numbering...

That said, there are two things to note:
- Your kernel headers do not need to correspond to the kernel version you 
intend to use (though I would advise to use recent kernel headers)
- I don't think the headers differ much between kernels 2.6.11.1 and 
2.6.11.7 - and if they do, it will not concern ABI changes

Arno 

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