[Nix-dev] Re: Please update of stdenv-linux tarballs

[Peter Simons]

Hi Lluís,

 > The problem with the CentOS 5 kernel should be related to some
 > specific feature of the new glibc 2.12 version.

unfortunately, that is not the case. Red Hat introduced some patches
that break glibc starting with version 2.6. There seems to be no way
to fix that except for building with glibc 2.5 -- which is what I've
been doing for the last 1.5 years or so.

Newer versions of the Red Hat kernel don't have that problem
anymore. Still, it would be nice if the bootstrap tools would work,
because if they don't, then there is no way at all to install Nix.
If they bootstrap tools do work, however, then it's possible to
override the glibc attribute on all-package.nix and to build the
entire system with version 2.5.

Take care,
Peter