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[Damien Mascord <tusker AT tusker.org>]

> 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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