bug#342: workaround for "kernel too old"

Nate Riffe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The CONFIGURE_ARGS in the Makefile for devel/glibc specifies
--enable-kernel=$(KERNEL_VERSION), and KERNEL_VERSION is set to 2.4.19
because that is the kernel version that is built for the LNX-BBC.
What this option does is tell glibc what is the earliest version of
the kernel it will need to work with.

If your build box is running a version earlier than 2.4.19, you will
get a "kernel too old" error because as far as glibc's build system
knows, you're building glibc for native use on the build box.  To work
around this obstacle, I suggest editting devel/glibc/Makefile,
replacing "$(KERNEL_VERSION)" with the kernel version that you have
running on your build box.  'uname -r' will give you the information
you need.

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