From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,RDNS_NONE autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from eldar.thecomputer-smith.co.za (unknown [196.41.199.50]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 952D5AC589 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 02:53:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 31444 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2002 07:53:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warpspider.thecomputer-smith.co.za) (10.0.1.246) by 10.0.0.1 with SMTP; 17 Sep 2002 07:53:42 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:51:59 +0200 From: Henti Smith To: Eric Noack Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo kernel setup question Message-Id: <20020917095159.557f1694.bain@reaper.org> In-Reply-To: <20020917094450.35656036.eric.noack@gmx.de> References: <20020917091727.1eb93581.bain@reaper.org> <20020917094450.35656036.eric.noack@gmx.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: e366ca60-25cd-46a5-8e13-7a5ac5c81ad2 X-Archives-Hash: c2cc25b41135d1db71d2ba0e2bf05895 > > I'm asking this as I saw that /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm is actual directories. > > I usually soft link /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux and /usr/include/asm to /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 > > and since /usr/src/linux is linked to current kernel .. I always have my running kernel headers for everything else ? > > > It actually is a bad way of doing things, > the headers in /usr/include should always keep the same you did compile the important librarys like glibc to. So if I update my kernel I have to recompile everything ? > if you replace this headers and there actually is a change in them you have to re-compile everything that uses that part, > which would be glibc, Xlibs, ..., ... ok .. I think I understand .. . > so its just usual to keep the header version there u used to compile glibc. recompile .. here I come :)) H