Re: [gentoo-user-fr] [Emerge] linux-headers 2.4.19

[Ni[o]

Le mer 17/09/2003 à 00:08, Richard Delorme a écrit :
> On Tuesday 16 September 2003 23:32, Ni[o wrote:
> > Ma question est simple, pourquoi il me propose de mettre à jour le
> > linux-headers du 2.4.19 alors que je tourne en 2.4.20 ??
>
> parce qu'il s'agit des en-têtes qui ont servi à compiler la glibc, et qu'il
> vaut mieux avoir des en-têtes en accord avec les bibliothèques.
>
> Voilà l'explication par Linus Torvalds lui même :
>
> I would suggest that people who compile new kernels should:
>
>  - not have a single symbolic link in sight (except the one that the
>    kernel build itself sets up, namely the "linux/include/asm" symlink
>    that is only used for the internal kernel compile itself)
>
> And yes, this is what I do. My /usr/src/linux still has the old 2.2.13
> header files, even though I haven't run a 2.2.13 kernel in a _loong_
> time. But those headers were what glibc was compiled against, so those
> headers are what matches the library object files.
>
> And this is actually what has been the suggested environment for at
> least the last five years. I don't know why the symlink business keeps
> on living on, like a bad zombie. Pretty much every distribution still
> has that broken symlink, and people still remember that the linux
> sources should go into "/usr/src/linux" even though that hasn't been
> true in a _loong_ time.

Merci !!
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Ni[o <gentoo@×××××××××××××××××.org>