[parisc-linux] Warning about bad kernel headers.

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 15 July 2006 18:26, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> A quick warning, if your kernel headers file unistd.h contain "#define
> PIC" then remove this line. It will cause all sorts of havoc when
> building glibc. It won't be immediately visible when building, and
> infact ld.so can compile quite happily and run with mixed pic non-pic
> code.

i dont use debian, but i assume your headers were trying to work with the fact 
that it does 'extern int errno' which can break in nasty ways when errno.h 
hasnt also been included ?

in Gentoo, we patch our kernel headers like so:
-extern int errno;
+#include <errno.h>
-mike
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