On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:34:18 -0400
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Given this, I don't understand why the build would not fail due to
> missing headers if only kernel-headers is installed. How is it that
> the kernel-source headers automatically 'override' the kernel-headers
> if kernel-source is installed?
>
> In other words, kernel-headers file '/usr/include/[sys]/<header>.h'
> includes 'linux/<header>.h', but if kernel-source is not installed,
> then 'linux/<header>.h' does not exist, yet the build does not fail.
I agree it can be confusing and it even caused me to miss-speak.
Pkgs such as NVIDIA_kernel require you have installed kernel-source.rpm
but Not the kernel-headers.rpm.
If it were a normal pkg then the kernel-source.rpm would be
kernel-devel.rpm.
It contains the header and other files necessary for building pkg that
are kernel dependent.
If you want answers about the reasoning behind the the kernel-headers
pkg change you may have to ask the kernel or glibc people because I
can't tell you.
As far as the gcc version for compiling the NVIDIA_kernel I have had no
problem, and depending upon which kernel it was, have used 2.96, 3.0,
3.1, and 3.2.
Charles
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