Bug#488343: marked as done (linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686: useless dependency on gcc-4.1)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #488343,
regarding linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686: useless dependency on gcc-4.1
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Package: linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686
Version: 2.6.24-7
Severity: minor
Why? Eevn if you must depend on a compiler (and I don't see that, either),
why won't just any version of gcc do?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686 depends on:
ii gcc-4.1 4.1.2-22 The GNU C compiler
ii linux-headers-2.6.24-1-common 2.6.24-7 Common header files for Linux 2.6.
ii linux-kbuild-2.6.24 2.6.24-1 Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.
linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:04:48PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Package: linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686
> Version: 2.6.24-7
> Severity: minor
> Why? Eevn if you must depend on a compiler (and I don't see that, either),
> why won't just any version of gcc do?
Because the linux-headers package exists to support building kernel modules
against the kernel in question, and kernel modules have to be built with the
same compiler version as the kernel itself or the kernel will refuse to load
them.
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