Re: latest merged ppc 32/64 NPTL port

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:51:46PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > OK, I'll double check.  I did a make clean; make; make tests about 6
> > hours ago and that worked.  I'll update gcc and binutils from cvs and
> > redo the build from scratch to check.
> 
> I realized that in my libc build I had not given --with-headers and so was
> using 2.4.19 headers.  When I rebuilt from scratch using 2.5.64 headers,
> most of the failures went away.  I am curious as to what the old headers
> could have been missing that would result in a miscompiled library rather
> than compile-time failures.

E.g. __NR_exit_group missing in asm/unistd.h causes exit to be __NR_exit,
not __NR_exit_group. Most of the other NPTL syscalls ATM have __NR_xxx
defined in NPTL source.

	Jakub