Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-headers

[Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>]

Hello,

--On Mittwoch, Juni 05, 2002 18:41:53 +0200 Alexander Gretencord 
<arutha@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 June 2002 18:03, Brandon Low wrote:
>> The linux headers should only really be changed when you upgrade glibc,
>> otherwise things get out of sync, perhaps we should upgrade the headers
>> automatically in the glibc ebuild from the currently installed kernel.
>
> Right, I think the linux-headers should be no normal package but get
> installed  from the kernel includes that are present when you compile
> glibc. And perhaps  a lil reminder somwhere. Many people don't know that
> it's supposed to be this  way. (e.g. ppl coming from redhat only know
> about symlinks in that dir at  least in 6 it was that way, dunno about 7)

Yes. I've used an old SuSE 7.3 with many packages compiled by myself and 
haven't had any problems up to now. And I'm sure, the glibc was very old 
(so I think it was compiled with a 2.2.x kernel) and last I've used kernel 
2.4.18 with the includes pointing at that kernel.

Why should the usr/include/linux and asm reflect the state at glibc compile 
time? Is there any reading about that?

Alexander