On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
On 01/26/2009 07:04, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
from a last year message:
Jakub Jelinek wrote:
The koji build boxes all run RHEL 5. Getting them upgraded to a not-yet- released kernel seems unlikely.
I know it is a pain, on the other hand it would really improve Fedora 11.
Not only that. It is the only way to actually test what we are shipping.
At least from glibc's POV (but indirectly from a much wider range) we have to compile everything on the kernel we are shipping for the release. Period. I know that the current build infrastructure doesn't do this but this only means it has to change. We have virtualization available, there is no excuse.
Is there any plan to build fedora with their own kernel ?
It's a 'must have', for some packages.
e.g. GLIBC: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linu...
A lot of features can't be used, because 2.6.18(3.5 years old) is the base kernel.
I'm confused. Is the glibc build process testing for features on the _currently running kernel_ in some fashion, or is it testing for features in headers provided by the kernel-headers package (which is a proper BR already)? I would expect the latter, meaning the currently running kernel doesn't really matter.