Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...] >> Now, I think libc’s --enable-kernel can specify a baseline older than >> the available kernel headers. So it may be that we can use 3.14 headers >> but build a libc that assumes a kernel possibly as old as 3.4. > > One data point: we're running Guix and also Nginx compiled with Guix on > Hydra which runs a 2.6.x kernel, and it seems to work. > > Another data point: [GNU/]Linux From Scratch uses headers from Linux > 3.19 and configures GNU libc with --enable-kernel=2.6.32. As I recall > they've been doing this for years, always using headers from the most > recent kernel but configuring libc to support older kernels. > > and another: Debian currently builds their libc against headers from > Linux 3.12.6 and with --enable-kernel=2.6.32. > > In summary, I think using headers from 3.14 would be fine. Indeed, so let’s do that. Thanks for the analysis and confirmation! Ludo’.
