[oe] linux-libc-headers version (reloaded)

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 09:28 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Andreas Oberritter
>> <obi at opendreambox.org> wrote:
>> > The point I was trying to make is that feature detection at compile time
>> > is impossible, if the feature can be disabled by the kernel config
>> > (which is the case for epoll and inotify, which in turn were the
>> > examples discussed on the mailing list in May 2010). You need to do
>> > runtime tests in programs intended to be portable.
>>
>> which may not be easy to do for cross compiled packages unless they are patches
>> to make this test dynamic
>
> Isn't a runtime test dynamic by definition?

yes thats what I meant

I'm not quite sure how
> cross-compiling is relevant to this.

fact that we may not be able to do the runtime tests to configure a
package while cross compiling is what I was thinking of


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