[PATCH] Fix ppc64 test-fenv

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Fri Apr 11 18:54:00 GMT 2003


> Steve Munroe wrote:
> 
> > Actually a bad kernel patch (related to initialing the MSR FE0/1 bits
> > correctly) went in after sometime after the 2.4.19 Suse SLES 8 release and
> > was not fixed again until 2.4.21-pre4 (I think).

If the official kernel source contained a buggy prctl so that it is unsafe
to try prctl on kernels between 2.4.19 and 2.4.21, then linux/configure.in
needs to be changed for 2.4.21 the minimum required kernel version.
Really, having glibc built without --enable-kernel switch just not work
forever no matter what kernel it is running on is a bad idea.

	Jakub



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