[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Vmware modules doesn't build for gentoo-2.6.9-gentoo-r3 kernel

[Georgi Georgiev]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:31:26 +0100, Martin Larsson wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:13:54 +0100, Martin Larsson
> <martin.larsson@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> /usr/include/linux contains the C-library headers (ie. for printf and
> atoi and so on).

Not exactly. "printf" is defined in /usr/include/stdio.h, "atoi" is
defined in /usr/include/stdlib.h.

You gave examples with basic functions that have nothing to do with
the kernel. There is a nice quote in the LFS book:

http://lfs.osuosl.org/lfs/view/5.1.1/chapter06/kernelheaders.html

As it states:

 The essential part is where Linus states that the header files should be
 the ones which Glibc was compiled against. These are the headers that
 should be used when you later compile other packages, as they are the
 ones that match the object-code library files. By copying the headers
 [to /usr/include/linux], we ensure that they remain available if later
 you upgrade your kernel.

So, if you use the headers for 2.6.9 and you run a 2.6.9 kernel, the
headers in /usr/include/linux and /usr/src/linux/include/linux will be
identical.

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