From: Henrik N. <hn...@ma...> - 2003-12-08 21:29:53
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jeff Dike wrote: > hn...@ma... said: > > Which is a bit troublesome on self-hosted UML systems of when building > > kernel configuration dependent programs. > > Do you have any specific examples? Consider a hosted system where the user is allowed to build his own UML kernel. With this there is various kernel-dependent programs such as iptables, strace etc which needs to be built. It is obviously possible the user is made aware of the quirks of the UML kernel tree compared to the other architectures, instructing him to configure the kernel source using the host arch when building these tools, but should he be required to? Luckily so I do not have this problem with any of the kernel dependent software we use, but mainly because uml is not our main architecture so our build process always builds primarily for the host, and also always builds temporary kernel source trees matching the exact kernel version when building kernel-dependent binaries, but I see the situation quite different in a UML hosting situation where UML is the primary architecture seen by the users. Regards Henrik |