Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>>
>>> The NixOS developers patch glibc to make sure that all software still
>>> runs on Linux 2.6.32:
>>>
>>>     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch
>>>
>>> Can we please also apply this?
>>
>> We could also apply this conditionally to x86_64 only, because that’s
>> probably the only architecture that’s used for HPC systems running
>> CentOS.
>
> Here’s a patch to graft the glibc to apply the patch to allow the 2.6.32
> kernel.  I’m going to apply this at work now.

That patch had a couple of problems.  Here’s a new version.

The main differences are:

* fix an undefined variable (“base” –> “glibc”)
* use package/inherit for glibc-final and
  glibc-final-with-bootstrap-bash; don’t override the “replacement”
  field with “#f”

-- 
Ricardo