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From: Mike Wojcikiewicz <mike@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Why headers? was:Mismatch between gentoo-sources and linux-headers?
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 19:36:20
Message-Id: 200305101252.35764.mike@codecrew.net
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4 On May 9, 2003 21:31, Norberto BENSA wrote:
5 > nbensa@venkman ~ $ date ; echo ${Spundun Bhatt}
6 > Friday 09 May 2003 08:47 pm
7 >
8 > > Why is glibc built againt a package called linux-headers? Must be a very
9 > > elementary question.... but since we have the entire source with us...
10 > > why is glibc not using that ? and using instead extra package of
11 > > headers?
12 >
13 > 'cos it needs to know about the architecture it is being installed.
14 >
15 > Is your box x86, ppc, sparc, mips, arm? How does it handle byte-order? How
16 > long is an int? Your chars are signed or unsigned?
17
18 I have to agree it seems kind of silly to have linux-headers if you already
19 have *-sources.. I mean the rest of gentoo is so cleanly done, this doesnt
20 seem to fit... linux-headers shouldnt even exist!:)
21
22 Hmmm.. couldn't the bootstrap process build against linux-headers, then when
23 you get to the part in the install that you have to build a kernel, unmerge
24 linux-headers and setup all the proper symlinks to /usr/src/linux after the
25 user emerged a kernel... or perhaps have the user d/l the kernel source
26 before the bootstrap.. or maybe someone else has a solution
27
28 CC:ing gentoo-dev.. I'd really like to know if this is feasible
29
30 DISCLAIMER: im not a hardcore C developer, so maybe I'm just not getting why
31 this wouldn't work
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33 Mike Wojcikiewicz
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35 mike@××××××××.net
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