Bug#234236: grave
GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Mon, 3 May 2004 18:50:18 +0100,
> Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > severity 234236 grave
> > thanks
> >
> > This is a grave bug since it keeps about 10-15 packages from building
> > on mips.
>
> Which packages did this bug affect? I agreed with Thiemo's and
> Goswin's opinion:
>
> > I wonder if it would be time to convert fdisk to _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 for
> > linux on all archs instead of 32 bit + _llseek hacks.
>
> > But then, util-linux should use more portable means than kernel headers,
> > like the syscall() interface.
>
> So I don't think it's grave for linux-kernel-headers.
Glibc itself might break as well, probably in non-obvious ways, if built
against this version of l-k-h.
The patch is obviously correct, and already in the upstream repository
(www.linux-mips.org).
Thiemo
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