[Nix-dev] gcc broken for FORTRAN build

[Pjotr Prins]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:10:01AM +0200, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> 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?

coreutils does not compile, for one.

> And what kernel are you using?

2.6.18 (for virtual servers).

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> Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/