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On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 20:03, Chris PeBenito wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 15:20, Svyatogor wrote: |
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> > AFAIK the version of headers and of kernel are supposed to be the same. But in |
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> > this case, I'll have vanilla-sources-2.4.21 and say my iptables will be build |
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> > against headers for 2.4.19. |
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> > My question is: are there any plans to bump up the version of the headers |
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> > package, or it is obsolete. In the later case, I guess, no package should |
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> > depend on virtual/os-headers any more, but rather on virtual/linux-sources |
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> > (or probably the *sources, shoudl provide os-headers). |
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> The headers should be the same ones used to compile glibc. i.e. the |
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> headers should match the library object files. Its been said many times |
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> that /usr/include/{linux,asm} should not be symlinked to the kernel |
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> sources. |
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I do not know if I 100% agree with this. Something like iptables is |
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more like drivers ... you need to be spot on, or in close vicinity of |
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the running kernel with the headers you compile it against. |
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Anyhow, in general in Gentoo, if you compile something like iptable, |
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nvidia-kernel, alsa, etc, it use the kernel headers in /usr/src/linux, |
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as it is easier to manage (say you are running kernel from livecd, |
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but want to compile whatever for your kernel that you will be |
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booting ...). |
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Regards, |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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