Re: comiling error in exec

[Michael Banck]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:24:58PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    > I was thinking more along the lines so that the user will know
>    > that he/she is using a old version of libc.  Because otherwise we
>    > would have to add each feature we depend on into our
>    > configure.in.
> 
>    Or just write it off.
> 
> If you mean that it is not worth it, then maybe.  But then we will
> have users complaining about the Hurd not compiling, etc.  And I think
> it would be more useful to get rid of those questions with a simple
> check in configure.in.

Why not just mentioning the required version/date of glibc in INSTALL?

It already says:

|The Hurd version 0.2 has been verified to work with versions 2.0.3 and
|2.0.4 of the GNU C library.  (But note that version 2.0.3 has some
|easily-fixed bugs in compilation for the i386-gnu target.)


Michael