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  • From: Damien Mascord <tusker AT tusker.org>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] udev problems due to kernel-headers spell?
  • Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 14:54:04 +0800

It's not possible with 2.6 kernels, as applications won't compile with
the kernel headers glibc was compiled against, that's the whole problem.
We used to copy the real kernel headers to /usr/include on glibc
compile, but that's only an option on 2.4 kernels.
Ideally we would install glibc-kernel-headers of the currently used
kernel on glibc compile, but that isn't really possible, since the
latest available package of sane headers is usually not for the latest
available kernel. So the compromise is to just always install the latest
available "fixed" kernel headers, and so far we haven't run into
problems with that.

Ah ok.

So, how do we get around the problems caused by having a mismatch between the kernel-headers that glibc was compiled against, and what new userland applications are compiled against?

Damien

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