Re: gpm on linux?

On 2006-07-12, Martin Whitaker <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>> of gpm and what did you do to install it?
>> 
> I run gpm under Mandriva 2006 (kernel 2.6.12-12mdk, gcc 4.0.1, glibc
2.3.5),
> and always get the message:
>
>    Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno or h_errno directly.
Needs
>    to be fixed.

yeah, you need to access __errno_location now.

Probably you need to do something like this:

- define h_errno/errno.
- wrap every library call 
	- before each call copy the new errno's value to
		__errno_location^
	- after copy __errno_location^ to errno.
- this wrapping could be possible with ld_preload 

Afaik they employed similar techniques to keep Kylix running (other libc
issues though) 

Setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL might also help:
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/assumekernel.html