glibc-2.10.1 make check fails

[Bruce Dubbs]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Bryan Kadzban
> <bryan at kadzban.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
>> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> --enable-kernel=VERSION compile for compatibility with kernel not older than
>>>    VERSION
>> Yes: abort any program at startup if the current kernel version is less
>> than VERSION, and also remove any workarounds included in the glibc
>> sources for kernels older than VERSION (if any).
>>
>>> but I found http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-dev-public@archlinux.org/msg08016.html
>>>
>>> which says:  The minimum kernel version required for glibc was bumped from
>>> 2.6.16 to 2.6.18
>> That's an Arch decision (made by their maintainer), not something that
>> applies to glibc itself.  :-)  See:
>>
>> http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/glibc/repos/core-x86_64/PKGBUILD?r1=36985&r2=39100
>>
>> for the actual change in their PKGBUILD script.  (The section labeled
>> "line 62".)
> 
> A more authoritative measure here would be to follow fedora since they
> are the glibc maintainers. Unfortunately, there's no real rationale,
> but their version is 2.6.18 made with this change:
> 
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/glibc/devel/glibc.spec?view=diff&r1=1.376&r2=1.377
> 
> Probably would be best to investigate why that is before making a
> change like that.

The reason I saw was so code didn't have to check for certain features at run 
time.  The would be to make things easier for the programmers.  2.6.18 
corresponds to RHEL 5 and is a compromise for backward compatibility and 
convenience.  2.6.18 was September 2006.

Using 2.6.18 appears to potentially affect binaries built against kernels older 
than that and run on a LFS-6.5 or later system. I don't see where that would be 
an issue.

   -- Bruce