On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:03:30 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:52:16PM +0800, csj wrote: > > What precisely does this package do? It's listed as a dependency > > of the latest libc6 packages (which I made the mistake of > > compiling then installing). > > It includes the files in /usr/include/linux and > /usr/include/asm which used to be part of libc6-dev. This is > simply a packaging reorganization.
Well, before the reorganization, I had an easy job recompiling mplayer and friends. > > The package appears to introduce massive breakage when > > compiling any program that links to some kernel function > > (e.g. mplayer and xawtv doing framebuffer video). > > Programs written that way always had a sword of potential > breakage hanging over them. The standard way to deal with this > at the moment, suboptimal though it is, is to copy the header > files you need from the kernel and include them in your own > package; that way you're safe from changes to glibc. IMHO a better way would be to have linux-kernel-headers as a virtual package supplied by linux-kernel-headers-2.4, linux-kernel-headers-2.2 and linux-kernel-headers-2.6. > > I'm a bit suspicious of the version number: > > 2.5.999-test7-bk-6. > > The move to 2.6 headers was necessary in order to support NPTL > in glibc. What's that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]