Bug#220624: libc6-dev: breaks builds on 2.4 systems because depending on linux-kernel-headers which contain 2.5 headers

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:37:19PM -0700, Alex Tsariounov wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:21, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Libc still includes query_module.  The function will work; you'll need
> > to copy the constants, types, and prototype into your application.  Or
> > an old copy of <linux/module.h>.
> > 
> > This isn't a new thing.  You've always needed to treat <linux/*> this
> > way.
> 
> I see.  But it worked fine on versions before the ds1-* releases.  I.e.,
> it worked on the libc6-dev-2.3.2-9 release (I think that was without the
> linux-kernel-headers package).   With the recent upgrade, it breaks.

The reason you're supposed to copy these headers is so that it doesn't
break when this happens.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer