Re: glibc-2.2.5 patches (was Re: ioperm)

[Jeff Bailey]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:36:55PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:

> I don't think this patch should be required.  Can you try removing
> it?  It might be that it only affects a system that's not installed
> right, or there is a bootstrapping problem that I am not seeing, or
> something like that.  Ideally, we would test the "from scratch"
> build cases (fresh cross environment, or a native system with no
> /include at all and then you install just gcc headers before doing
> hurd install-headers and building libc) as well as the vanilla
> native build environment.

There definetly isn't a problem bootstrapping without this patch.
This patch is part of the Debian packaging.  When bootstrapping the
libio versions, I used the glibc CVS (2.2 branch) unmodified.

Given that this patch only exists in the Debian package, I'm inclined
to think that it doesn't apply to any of the cases you mentioned.

I'll ask BenC if he knows who requested it be put in (I asked Marcus,
and it's been there since before he got really involved).  I won't
have time to test the no /include case for a few days.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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