On 8/14/06, Angel Tsankov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The LFS 6.1.1 book says that "the Linux source tree is often retained for a long
time." What reasons may one have to do this?
>
> Building external kernel modules would be the main reason (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)
Aha, and iptables probably, right?
Iptables should build on its own. It uses netfilter from the kernel,
but should provide its own headers or use the ones installed in
/usr/include.
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Dan
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