On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:34:23PM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> 
> On Mar 29, 2004, at 1:28 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>perfect - where does this variable get set?  sorry for what now seems
> >>like OT glibc stuff.
> >
> >it's passed to glibc ./configure at build time; if you have an rpm 
> >based
> >distro you'll see it in the specfile of the src.rpm
> 
> ok, so this presents a bit of a problem in that case (assuming I'm 
> understanding you) - I'm working backwards in this respect, as I'm 
> using the "new" version of glibc, and an older version of the kernel 
> than the one that glibc was told to remain compatible with - the 
> important question, is does this order of operations (possibly) break 
> things, or does the fact that I compiled the kernel on this new version 
> of glibc remove any issues.

glibc will just plain refuse to operate (correctly). glibc makes assumptions
about not needing workarounds for older kernels if you tell it it can assume
a newer kernel...