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/linux/kernel-features.h;hb=HEAD > > 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. -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
