Hello Eric,

On Thursday 19 January 2012 21:38:22 Eric Blake wrote:

> That's an unusual mix, where the syscall exists (since 2.6.27) but libc

> is too old to use the syscall.

The original kernel was 2.6.26, but which later was updated to 2.6.32 for better support of newer hardware.

> Then how about this patch:

>

> From 330f666036943a0fc423a4b5db2ca294fb2a4298 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

> From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:35:39 -0700

> Subject: [PATCH] build: skip lxc with too-old glibc

...

Looks good: Now the missing support is detected and LXC is automatically disabled or refuses to compile. I did NOT test if it still compiles on newer systems.

> Reported by Philipp Hahn.

You may add a "Testes-by: me" if needed.

Thank you for your work and the patch.

BYtE

Philipp

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