[oe] [PATCH] angstrom-2008.1: use linux-libc-headers 2.6.24 for hipox machine

[Steffen Sledz]

>>>>  #This is unrelated to the kernel version, but userspace apps (e.g. HAL) require a recent version to build against
>>>> -PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers 	= "2.6.31"
>>>> +PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers       ?= "2.6.31"
>>>> +PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers_hipox ?= "2.6.24"
>>>
>>> NACK, that creates undefined behaviour for multimachine builds.
>
>> -PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers 	= "2.6.31"
>> +PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers       = "2.6.31"
>> +PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers_hipox = "2.6.24"
>
>> Is this better?
>
> No, it still changes the headers for one machine, which leads to
> undefined behaviour for other machines using the same arch.
> Any solution that doesn't mark *all* packages as machine specific for
> hipox is going to cause that behaviour.

Would be a

-PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers 	= "2.6.31"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers  ?= "2.6.31"

acceptable to allow overwrites in local.conf?

BTW: I did not found any fallback handling for inotify_init1 (added with 2.6.27) in the glibc.

Regards,
Steffen