On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:06:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben> False. That is the very thing I want to alleviate (people using kernel > Ben> headers from the libc6-dev package). > However, that is what 99% of the programs out there need to > do, since they really are not dependent on the specifics of kernel > structures, and we should discourage un needed dependency on kernel > structures.
All I want is to be able to build ipmasqadm... (It needs ip_masq.h, which used to be in libc6-dev, but isn't any longer) > Now, for the 1% or so of the packages that really are wedded > to kernel headers, that is correct. But then these packages should > not run on n a kernel version that they were compiled for. (HINT: if > your program can run on a kernel different from the one you compiled > for, the chances are that you do not need specific kernel headers; at > most, you need to say headers from a kernel later than blah). Sure, fine, wonderful. How do I do this, exactly? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
