Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis:

> Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes:
>
>> I have investigated a bit more why the vlc-2.2.0 build fails. I think it is
>> due to
>> /* DVB Card Drivers */
>> #include <linux/dvb/version.h>
>> #include <linux/dvb/dmx.h>
>> #include <linux/dvb/frontend.h>
>> in modules/access/dvb/linux_dvb.c.
>>
>> The include files come from linux-libre-headers, which we have in
>> version 3.3.8. Could this be updated? In master or core-updates?
>
> It would trigger a full rebuild, so it would have to be done in
> core-updates.

Right.  The version has to be chosen carefully (should be a LTS version
and one that is likely to remain on fsfla.org and/or that we mirror on
alpha.gnu.org), plus we don’t want glibc’s requirement to be too high so
people can use Guix on GNU/Linux with relatively old kernels.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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