YDL4.0 ==> YDL-3.01 portability issues

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Brian,

Thanks for responding. 

Threading model, eh??? Your suggestion makes sense. The complaint was
about a missing function. Looks like "we" now have to be careful when
using applications built under different YDL revs. Hmmm... I guess I
would have liked to have seen that message delivered in big red letters
from Terrasoft.  Maybe they did and I wasn't paying attention.


I am still perplexed  over the installed versions of the kernel header
files and wonder if that could also be an issue. 

If you check 

	/usr/include/linux/version.h

you will find the kernel header files [linux, asm, asm-ppc, asm-ppc64]
installed under /usr/include are from linux-2.4.20, not linux-2.6.x.

Is this a "feature" or a "bug"?


I discovered the version skew issue when I attempted to rebuild Mac On
Linux. Having updated the kernel to 2.6.9 I updated the header files.
The sheep driver for MOL will not build using the 2.6.x headers. There
has been a change in the definition of the structure sk_buff as can be
seen from examining skbuff.h.
 


-Joseph

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On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:49, Brian Richardson wrote:
> Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> >Question:
> >
> >	Should an application built under YDL-4.0 run under YDL-3.0.1?
> >
> >Answer:
> >	Depends...
> >  
> >
> [ snip ]
> 
> >Thoughts???
> >  
> >
> Looks like a threading issue. I read somewhere whilst installing YDL 4.0 
> (I've never installed 3.0) that one of the major changes was the use of 
> the GNU pth library instead of the LinuxThreads. I'm sure they probably 
> aren't entirely compatible.
> 
> Brian
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Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco at comcast.net>