Re: [patches] Cross-building instructions

[Jim Blandy <jimb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Mitchell <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Khem Raj wrote:
>> 
>>> We use linux kernel headers here and we have not specified them in our
>>> prerequisites page and probably 2.6.18+
>> 
>> 2.6.19.1+ in practice - 2.6.18 didn't have all the changes needed for 
>> headers_install to produce good sets of headers on some platforms, and 
>> 2.6.19 headers broke building glibc; that was fixed in 2.6.19.1.
>
> I would suggest putting that directly into the document itself.  I have
> also updated the prerequisites page.

The document refers to the prerequisites page, and I don't think that
sort of historical detail is really relevant to the instructions.  We
could go on forever detailing issues with different versions of the
software in use.  The goal here is to provide one simple build
procedure known to work, which developers can expand and vary on their
own.