Conditionally compiled lib*/*.o [was: Re: [PATCH] ...]

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 15 May 2006 5:19 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
> > P.S.  The linux kernel still says Make 3.79.1 in the
> > Documentation/Changes for 2.6.16.  Saying that our problem space is
> > harder than the kernel's problem space strikes me as kinda silly.
>
> hmmmmm ... i'm not sure how to read that file.  at the top, it states:
>
> "This document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of
> software necessary to run the 2.6 kernels..."
>                               ^^^
>
> and yet, further down, it reads:
>
> "Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already
> functionally running a Linux 2.4 kernel."
>                              ^^^
>
> i don't quite know how to parse that.
>
> rday

I dunno what they mean by that last bit either (assuming you're not 
cross-compiling from Solaris or an older version of Linux?)  But the 
prerequisites list is up to date; 2.4 didn't require gcc 3.2.

Rob
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