[Nix-dev] gcc broken for FORTRAN build

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi Pjotr,

Pjotr Prins wrote:

> Marc has sent me a coreutils patch that works (attached). Apparently
> building on an older Kernel compiles in the functionality (using
> recent kernel headers) - which breaks that build.
> 
> What do I do with it? Can we automatically patch when an older kernel
> is running? - probably a bad idea because binary downloads will
> perhaps core dump on older kernels.  Make the patch standard? - not a
> good idea either - as we loose functionality.

What functionality is lost with this patch?

And what kernel are you using?

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