[Nix-dev] Patching uname in stdenv?

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 04:21:40PM +0200, Marc Weber wrote:
> Excerpts from Lluís Batlle i Rossell's message of Wed Aug 17 10:45:39 +0200 2011:
> > I'd like a list of the problems this would solve.
> Eventually build of python-2.7 on linux-3.0 and the like which use uname
> to determine kernel version, and they don't know about linux-3 yet.

Why they want the kernel version?