Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-headers ebuild version.

[David Nielsen <lovechild@foolclan.com>]

I had countless problems getting stuff to compile against 2.5 because of
2.4 headers being present in /usr/lib - this madness has to end, is
there no sane solution to this crap, basically we risk breaking
something at near random when we upgrade the kernel just because some
header changed and some program makes an assumption that is wrong like a
struct that has changed - right?

we need a sane way to work around this - I remember Martin Schlemmer 
once proposing a kernel API to make sure we always had a sane way of
working with the kernel without including kernel headers in userspace
which is the cause of many a problem.

- Lovechild

On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 00:40, Svyatogor wrote:
> On Friday 20 June 2003 19:25, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> >
> > Anyhow, in general in Gentoo, if you compile something like iptable,
> > nvidia-kernel, alsa, etc, it use the kernel headers in /usr/src/linux,
> > as it is easier to manage (say you are running kernel from livecd,
> > but want to compile whatever for your kernel that you will be
> > booting ...).
> Exactly, so it shouldn't be installing the headers in /usr/include/linux, 
> which is what linux-headers does.


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