Re: Exchange with Arjan
"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
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Dave, Yah, could happen, but it works well with rpm because the rpms are built against a production kernel from a distribution that is static in that regard. Arjan is only responsible for production kernels with static symbol addresses. Also, anybody that recompiles a kernel should be capable of recompiling LiS. --brian On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Dave Grothe wrote: > > I have always shied away from using that technique because I consider > it dangerous. Somebody recompiles the kernel, the symbol's address > changes, but they forget to rebuild LiS and the thing blows up in some > strange way. > But "we" may be reduced to depending upon that technique. > Sigh, > Dave > At 04:31 PM 1/19/2005, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote: > > Dave, > On the current LiS-2.16.18 autoconf releases any unexported symbols > are > ripped from the system map. They don't need to be exported to be > used. > Even static symbols are ripped this way. Don't waste your breath. > --brian -- Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦ [email protected] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦ http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦ ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦ ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦