Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-06-05 Thread pak_lfs
Στις Κυρ 04 Ιουν 2006 21:13, ο/η Jim Gifford έγραψε: > Hey everyone > The problem is that they will compile, but there is a lot of things > that also need to be fixed. If you look at the glibc-kern-header.sspec, > it basically does the same as the headers script. It's going to take a > long tim

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Gifford
Hey everyone The problem is that they will compile, but there is a lot of things that also need to be fixed. If you look at the glibc-kern-header.sspec, it basically does the same as the headers script. It's going to take a long time before the headers get completely compliant with userspace

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-06-04 Thread Andrew Benton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, there was a little issue, that unistd.h was "oversanitized" (the macro definitions for _syscall* macros were removed) so util-linux wouldn't build fdisk, but that was easy to fix and if it remains in the new -mm I 'll probably report it upstream. util-linux-2.13-pr

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-06-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I 've been using David 's patches and Jim 's headers script on my new experimental build. As it has been said here already, there are two, fairly distinct patches: Cool. I was hoping that someone would play around with the David Woodhou

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-06-03 Thread pak_lfs
Matthew Burgess: >Jim, please see the following messages from Linus: > ... >Now, these are all to do with cleaning up the headers, rather than the >original "make headers_install" proposal.  However, the Makefile target >will likely be added later on (and there's still plenty of time before >2.

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-06-02 Thread Jim Gifford
Jürg Billeter wrote: Haven't the macros PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_SHIFT been declared as deprecated a long time ago (for userspace) and applications should directly use libc functions to get that information? So the definitions in your sanitized header file would just be backward compatibility helpers a

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-06-02 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Die, 2006-05-30 at 12:02 -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > The one thing I've realize working on this is that, not everything in > the headers will work out of the box, good example is the paging size > stuff, that requires a glibc function to get it done right. If depends > on the config.h that is

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/30/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are 2 other projects out there for headers. The Headers project, which has roots to xLFS and what T2 Project has done. Fedora is now using David Woodhouse's cleaned up kernel tree with the results of `make headers_install'. The rawhide

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/30/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan, I consider that a part of the headers project, Jürg and I worked a lot of the logic out together, the only difference is that Jürg only concentrated on the x86 platforms. Gotcha. Well, to be honest, the scripts are very different. Bu

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Gifford
Dan, I consider that a part of the headers project, Jürg and I worked a lot of the logic out together, the only difference is that Jürg only concentrated on the x86 platforms. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See t

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Gifford
Thanx Matt. Talked to a lot of people today about this from my headers project. As long as there is no way to use the kernel headers, this project is going to exist. Plus, we had a call to sanitize the 2.4 headers to get rid of the __KERNEL__ stuff from them. If the make install_headers patch

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/30/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are 2 other projects out there for headers. The Headers project, which has roots to xLFS and what T2 Project has done. Jürg Billeter's linux-glibc-headers script for paldo. http://www.paldo.org/index.php?section=packages&page=main&relea