On Thu 27 Nov 2003, cam wrote: > > I wonder if debian has included more of the USAGI patches that aren't applied > to the 'vanilla' kernel from kernel.org? Various comments in the rsync TODO
The kernel isn't the issue. When compiling a C program, nothing about the kernel is used. In fact, I use a vanilla 2.4.22 kernel, downloaded from a kernel.org mirror; i.e. not a Debian-supplied kernel. The issue is what kernel headers are used when building the glibc environment. Now I'm not that familiar with glibc, but my understanding is that glibc for linux takes certain kernel headers, and integrates that into the /usr/include tree. Whether or not you can build an IPv6-capable program is dependent on your glibc, rather than your kernel. > breaks. This affects at least OSF/1, RedHat 5, and Cobalt, which > are moderately improtant.(sic)" Ummm.... Isn't redhat 5 pretty ancient? I mean, a quick search indicates that RH 5 was around in 1998... OSF/1 development stopped in 1994 AFAIK (http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1). No sane person would still be running those, I would hope. (Of course, my opinion is that everyone should use Debian (even on their Cobalt or Alpha), but I'm biased :-) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
