[Buildroot] [PATCHv2] package/glibc: allow runing on kernels older than used for the headers

[yann.morin at orange.com]

Alexey, All,

On 2022-02-02 17:00 +0000, Alexey Brodkin spake thusly:
> > We add an option to glibc to allow the user to enable compatibility
> > shims. To simplify the case, when that option is enabled, we just let
> > glibc enable as old compatibility shims as supported by the current
> > architecture.
> Looks reasonable to me. I mean to not have all the flexibility proposed
> initially, instead adding an option to fall back to something much
> older compared to used headers.
> 
> If more options are needed later, we'll get to know it at some point ;)
> 
> And thanks for doing that, as I meant to do something similar a while ago,
> but never posted my local changes.

Will that be followed up by a reviewed-by or maybe a tested-by tag? ;-)

Thanks for the feedback, by the way. 👍

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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