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Bug#488343: linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686: useless dependency on gcc-4.1



Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 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 you need to use the same compiler version that was used to build
the kernel in order to build modules against the headers.

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