[gentoo-user] Do I need linux-headers package ??

2003-10-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
It's time to start cleaning up my system and I've removed all the older kernels I've emerged and tried. I'm happy with gs-sources-2.4.23_pre7 so the rest are already gone. I do have sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1, which I didn't install. Maybe it came down with the original portage sync or

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need linux-headers package ??

2003-10-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Hall Stevenson wrote: It's time to start cleaning up my system and I've removed all the older kernels I've emerged and tried. I'm happy with gs-sources-2.4.23_pre7 so the rest are already gone. I do have sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1, which I didn't install. Maybe it came down with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need linux-headers package ??

2003-10-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Friday 24 October 2003 22:08, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: It's time to start cleaning up my system and I've removed all the older kernels I've emerged and tried. I'm happy with gs-sources-2.4.23_pre7 so the rest are already gone. I do have

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need linux-headers package ??

2003-10-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Friday 24 October 2003 22:08, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Long answer: it was installed as part of the original 'emerge system'. glibc was compiled against these headers as are a lot of applications. Its generally a good idea to keep glibc and applications that link to glibc on common ground.

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need linux-headers package ??

2003-10-24 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:38:14 + Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, when I initially installed Gentoo I did so GRP-style. Then again, any emerge system I've ran since then are compiled against what ?? The current kernel, i.e. the one linked to /usr/src/linux,

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need linux-headers package ??

2003-10-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Friday 24 October 2003 23:00, Spider wrote: if you clean out linux sources, make sure /usr/src/linux points at the right place. What do you mean by that ?? /usr/src/linux points to /usr/src/linux-2.4.23_pre7-gss. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need linux-headers package ??

2003-10-24 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:45:33 + Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 23:00, Spider wrote: if you clean out linux sources, make sure /usr/src/linux points at the right place. What do you mean by that ?? /usr/src/linux points to

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need linux-headers package ??

2003-10-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Saturday 25 October 2003 00:06, Spider wrote: What do you mean by that ?? /usr/src/linux points to /usr/src/linux-2.4.23_pre7-gss. Well, it means that you should make sure that usr/src/linux really points at the kernel you want to make modules for. in this case all updated modules