Re: floating stacks?
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:46:56PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > FLOATING_STACKS is only
> > enabled on i386 if you specify an --enable-kernel of at least 2.3.99;
> > that loses kernel 2.2 compatibility. Debian can't do that.
>
> Allow me a question:
> Why is it then that building glibc tells me:
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: kernel-headers-2.4
> texi2html latex2html
>
> ?
>
> Surely thats either not right or I'm clueless (yet again) as to whats
> that supposed to mean.
We need the 2.4 kernel headers to build; that doesn't mean we need a
2.4 kernel to _run_. You can't use floating stacks and also have 2.2
compatibility.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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