SSH, glibc, and Red Hat

[Darren Tucker]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:15:15PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> An alternative solution if building on an older machine just won't
> work for some reason is to keep a chroot on the newer machine.  I do
> this and it is quite useful to build for the older platform.  Create a
> complete copy of the older system in a sub-directory and then use
> chroot(1) to that location and build.

The only thing to watch for there is for kernel-related things since
you're obviously running on the same kernel in the chroot.

This was the case with the descriptor passing bugs in Linux 2.0 kernels:
the Debian folk used chroots as you described.  configure found that
descriptor passing worked fine (which it did, on the host's kernel)
even though it didn't on the target.  They eventually added some code
to detect the buggy kernel versions at runtime.

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