Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Hackage on Linux

On 28/08/10 02:15, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

On 28 August 2010 11:09, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/27/10 05:58 , Simon Farnsworth wrote:

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If you don't mind, I'd like a proper reference for this; looking at the Linux kernel documentation as you suggest tells me that the kernelspace to userspace ABI is supposed to be 100% stable, such that I can take all the binaries (including shared libraries) from an i386 Linux 2.0 system, and run them in a chroot on my x86-64 Linux 2.6.35 system.

Maybe it's "supposed" to be, but even with more recent stuff (like, say, binary GHC releases --- which use glibc shared even if Haskell libs aren't) I quite often see programs fail to run because the kernel changed something and the kernel/userspace interface changed as a result. A written policy is worthless if it isn't followed.

Well, I have no need to recompile glibc and packages that depend upon it every time I update my kernel... So maybe glibc changes, but not the kernel AFAICT.

I've been following this part of the discussion with some interest. Mainly because I've been a Linux user since kernel version 1.2, and I've *never* had any of the problems people mention here. So I'm wondering, what are you doing to your systems? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe