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[Damien Mascord <tusker AT tusker.org>]

Damien Mascord wrote:

> Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
>
> > Not true. glibc doesn't use those headers at all, it builds against the
> > real kernel headers. glibc-kernel-headers is only there so userspace
> > does have some headers that don't break everything like the real kernel
> > headers do.
> >
> >  
> The kernel headers that applications use need to be the kernel headers 
> that glibc is compiled against.   I had thought that the 
> glibc-kernel-headers was created so that this could be possible, as 
> per bug 3771 (http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3771).
>
> Hope the stuff written there makes a bit of sense...
And another URL for further reference: 
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/usr-src-linux-symlink.html

Damien