>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 23 14:07:13 2004 >>>attached there is a patch to make cdrtools 2.01 compatible to Linux >>>2.6.1. >>>If the patch is not needed for some distros, which are assembled >>>somehow, it does not harm anything... >>> >>> >> >>Why should I add a wrong definition that would _break_ compilation >>once the Linux kernel include files are fixed? >> >>If you like to get a fix, go to the Linux Kernel people and request >>a fix for their bugs! >> >> >> >> >Problems may be caused by common user errors like using kernel include >files, particularly if it's done wrong by assuming that /usr/src/linux >points to the running kernel instead of the distribution kernel. It also >results silly end-user issues, such as generating an executable which >will only run on a single kernel series, like 2.0, 22, 2.4, 2.6, but >doesn't have kernel detection built in or include the kernel series in >the executable name so the user can select the correct version.
Please don't comment things you obviously don't really understand. 1) The include files on /usr/src/linux have been absolutely needed for a long time to be able to compile at all. 2) The include files under /usr/src/linux are definitely more recent resp. closer to the currently run kernel than what typically is under /usr/include 3) I am writing portable software. This means that it is portable even between different Linux versions. 4) What people like Linus Torvalds tell me on how I should compile, is definitely much much more incorrect than what I am currently doing. 5) The problems are a result of _inconsistent_ unclude files in /usr/src/linux, which I call a clear Bug that needs to be fixed. 6) If you did ever try to write a program that uses interfaces that need /usr/src/linux to compile and run correctly you would probably never repeat the wrong statements from people from LKML. ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> ><html> Keinen HTML Muell bitte! No HTML junk please! Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]