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On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 12:52:32PM -0400, Mike Wojcikiewicz wrote: |
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> On May 9, 2003 21:31, Norberto BENSA wrote: |
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> > nbensa@venkman ~ $ date ; echo ${Spundun Bhatt} |
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> > Friday 09 May 2003 08:47 pm |
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> > > Why is glibc built againt a package called linux-headers? Must be a very |
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> > > elementary question.... but since we have the entire source with us... |
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> > > why is glibc not using that ? and using instead extra package of |
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> > > headers? |
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> > 'cos it needs to know about the architecture it is being installed. |
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> > Is your box x86, ppc, sparc, mips, arm? How does it handle byte-order? How |
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> > long is an int? Your chars are signed or unsigned? |
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> I have to agree it seems kind of silly to have linux-headers if you already |
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> have *-sources.. I mean the rest of gentoo is so cleanly done, this doesnt |
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> seem to fit... linux-headers shouldnt even exist!:) |
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> Hmmm.. couldn't the bootstrap process build against linux-headers, then when |
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> you get to the part in the install that you have to build a kernel, unmerge |
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> linux-headers and setup all the proper symlinks to /usr/src/linux after the |
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> user emerged a kernel... or perhaps have the user d/l the kernel source |
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> before the bootstrap.. or maybe someone else has a solution |
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> CC:ing gentoo-dev.. I'd really like to know if this is feasible |
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> DISCLAIMER: im not a hardcore C developer, so maybe I'm just not getting why |
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> this wouldn't work |
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/usr/include/linux is, according to Linus, obsolete and _should not_ be |
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symlinked to /usr/src/linux/[...] |
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Jon Portnoy |
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