mini-ct: the kernel headers

[Yann E. MORIN]

On Saturday 05 May 2007 23:03, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   the first step in building the toolchain is typically getting (and
> patching) the sanitized kernel headers.  for this, i would simply use
> the latest kernel source tree via "git pull", and run:

Not git pull: headers might not be stable in head. You'd better get the
lattest stable tarball (today: 2.6.21.1).

>   $ make ARCH=??? headers_install
> 
> in a perfect world, what comes out of that should just plain work for
> the rest of the toolchain build, correct? 

Yep. I also assume this is correct in ct-NG.

> if it doesn't and there's a 
> problem with what that step produces in terms of headers, i'd submit a
> patch to the kernel mailing list to take care of it.

Yep.

>   currently, there are no patches applied to
> linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0, and there shouldn't be any needed for the
> output from the latest kernel source tree.
>   does that sound reasonable?

Yep. You should be safe and sound with that (provided you don't use git head).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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