* Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-headers ebuild version.
@ 2003-06-20 18:03 99% ` Chris PeBenito
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From: Chris PeBenito @ 2003-06-20 18:03 UTC (permalink / raw
To: svyatogor; +Cc: gentoo-dev
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On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 15:20, Svyatogor wrote:
> AFAIK the version of headers and of kernel are supposed to be the same. But in
> this case, I'll have vanilla-sources-2.4.21 and say my iptables will be build
> against headers for 2.4.19.
>
> My question is: are there any plans to bump up the version of the headers
> package, or it is obsolete. In the later case, I guess, no package should
> depend on virtual/os-headers any more, but rather on virtual/linux-sources
> (or probably the *sources, shoudl provide os-headers).
The headers should be the same ones used to compile glibc. i.e. the
headers should match the library object files. Its been said many times
that /usr/include/{linux,asm} should not be symlinked to the kernel
sources.
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