Bug 426400

Summary:	Reintroduce sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.16 to the tree
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Richard Yao (RETIRED) <ryao>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	Inclusion
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-13 06:20:46 UTC

I am running the Gentoo Linux userland in Gentoo FreeBSD jail. FreeBSD's Linux emulation emulates 2.6.16, which requires building against sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.16. Otherwise, coreutils and tar will expect syscalls that FreeBSD does not support.

Comment 1 Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-13 07:14:48 UTC

I cannot find gentoo-headers-2.6.16-4.tar.bz2, which is needed to reintroduce sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.16. I tried substituting sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.18 using the tarball from vapier's dev space, but `make -s mrproper` will fail with the following:

Makefile:1376: *** mixed implicit and normal rules.  Stop.

A workaround is to install =sys-devel/make-3.80-r4, which has no problems with mixed implicit and normal rules.

Using the older headers was Diego's idea, which required rebuilding glibc. Unfortunately, rebuilding glibc fails due to an issue with ptrace. I am going to close this until I find a way to make it work. Otherwise, the older headers are not useful to us.