[Nix-dev] bootstrap tools for i686 can't build 2.6.28 kernel headers

[Peter Simons]

Hi,

it appears that the bootstrap tools for i686 come with version
3.82 of GNU Make. That version won't compile Linux 2.6.28,
because the kernel makefiles mix implicit and normal rules. As a
result, I can no longer bootstrap, because I need those old
kernel headers to build glibc 2.5. Curiously enough, this problem
doesn't seem to occur on x86_64.

I've hacked around this by manually replacing the make binary in
the bootstrap tools store path with an older version, but that's
probably not a particularly good solution.

Does anyone have a suggestion how to deal with this situation?

Take care,
Peter