[Nix-dev] Minor stdenv down-grade required in trunk

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 06:49:34PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm about to commit a patch to trunk that downgrades stdenv on Linux from
> glibc 2.12 to 2.5. That change is required, because all glibc versions
> after that have a bug that prevents them from being run with kernel 2.4.x,
> which is the kernel I'm stuck with on my SuSE host system. Updating to
> Linux 2.6.x is not an option on that machine, I'm afraid, because my
> floppy disk drive requires some proprietary kernel driver that I can't
> recompile.
> 
> Anyway, I reckon many people will have that problem, and I'd like to fix
> it pro-actively rather than wait for the bug reports to pour in.
> 
> Does anyone mind that change?

Very good one! :)