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From: Henti Smith <bain@××××××.org>
To: Eric Noack <eric.noack@×××.de>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo kernel setup question
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 02:53:47
Message-Id: 20020917095159.557f1694.bain@reaper.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo kernel setup question by Eric Noack
1 > > I'm asking this as I saw that /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm is actual directories.
2 > > I usually soft link /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux and /usr/include/asm to /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386
3 > > and since /usr/src/linux is linked to current kernel .. I always have my running kernel headers for everything else ?
4 > >
5 > It actually is a bad way of doing things,
6 > the headers in /usr/include should always keep the same you did compile the important librarys like glibc to.
7
8 So if I update my kernel I have to recompile everything ?
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10 > if you replace this headers and there actually is a change in them you have to re-compile everything that uses that part,
11 > which would be glibc, Xlibs, ..., ...
12
13 ok .. I think I understand .. .
14
15 > so its just usual to keep the header version there u used to compile glibc.
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17 recompile .. here I come :))
18
19 H

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo kernel setup question Paul <set@×××××.com>