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Bug 245416

Summary:	db4 nptl-abi-note fails to assemble on arm, still needed?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh>
Component:	db4	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	pknirsch
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Description Lennert Buytenhek 2007-06-22 22:07:04 UTC

db4 includes nptl-abi-note.S, which is meant to ensure that we are running on at
least a 2.4.20 kernel.

Unfortunately, this file doesn't assemble on ARM, as it contains a line
'.section .note.GNU-stack, "", @progbits', where '@' denotes the start of a
comment in ARM assembler.  (On ARM, you'd use '%progbits'.)

I would include a patch to exclude building the nptl note on ARM systems, but
considering that the current Fedora glibc causes /sbin/init to bomb out on boot
if you're running on anything older than 2.6.9, do we really still need
nptl-abi-note in this day and age?

Thanks for your time.

Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2007-07-31 14:11:50 UTC

Agreed. I think we can safely remove it from the devel db4.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Comment 2 Lennert Buytenhek 2008-03-10 11:51:55 UTC

This has been fixed since db4 4.6.18-1.