Re: [gentoo-dev] lsof with gentoo CFLAGS

["Tod M. Neidt" <tneidt@fidnet.com>]

"Bruce A. Locke" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:49:43 -0500
> "Tod M. Neidt" <tneidt@fidnet.com> wrote:
> 
> > One comment.  From the documentation, lsof appears to be sensitive to
> > the system kernel. It may require some kind of dependency so that if a
> > new kernel is merged, lsof gets rebuilt for that kernel.  I am not 100%
> > sure if that necessary though.
> 
> If a kernel dependency needs to be added it might be a good idea to allow
> for some way of overriding the dependency in case the end user decides not
> to use the gentoo kernel-source packages, etc and uses a linus tree
> instead (aka no entries in the db, etc).  Or does such a thing exist
> already?

You still *might* have to rebuild lsof for the new kernel regardless of
where it came from.  See the "Marty says:" discussion on
cross-configuration in the 00XCONFIG doc file.  I don't know how
applicable this is now though.  The kernels discussed are rather old.
Like me. :)

tod