Re: glibc and 2.1.26

Mark H. Wood (mwood@mhw.OIT.IUPUI.EDU)
Sat, 15 Feb 1997 08:59:48 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
[deletia]
> We should be really, really careful before telling people to use private
> development-only snapshots. In fact, if the only way to compile the 2.1
> kernel is to use private development-only snapshots, I would agrue
> something really wrong has happened.

Hear, hear! Debugging kernels is hard enough without having to debug the
build-tools at the same time. And often just *finding* these unreleased
tools is next to impossible.

Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer MWOOD@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU
Those who will not learn from history are doomed to reimplement it.