[slackintosh-users] Re: Upgrading glibc

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:48:51 +0200
Adrian Ulrich <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi James,
> 
> > So the topic says it all.  I have slack 10.2, and I've just now run
> > into an interesting issue with postfix-2.4.1
> 
> I had the same issue with Slackintosh 11.0 and postfix 2.4.0.
> 
> The makedef script of postfix checks if the current system is running
> a 2.6 kernel (epoll was not supported on linux < 2.6). If it does,
> postfix will build epoll support.
> 
> Well: Slackintosh 2.6 uses a 2.6 kernel, but due to stability issues
> glibc was compiled using linux 2.4-headers.
> 
> Even if your kernel has epoll support, the Slackintosh glibc does not
> support it.
> 
> 
> There are 2 solutions:
> 
> #1 Upgrade to -current. Epoll works fine there
> #2 Compile postfix with -DNO_EPOLL
> 
> Regards,
>  Adrian
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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>    (11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name
> and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.
> 
> 
> 

Thanks Adrian.  Has anyone ever attempted an upgrade using the x86
version as well?  I couldn't seem to find very much information on that
online.  Thanks again.

James

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