Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

[wsa <wsa3@xs4all.nl>]

Thanks for explaining this in the other thread aswell.
What i wanted to ask, could this package be the cause of custom 2.4.22
kernels not going past INIT (today's update fixed this problem) which
i and a few other people experienced over the last weekend?

The original poster mentioned both mplayer and xawtv breakage, both i 
use because the server(mplayer self compiled)acts as a vcr aswell. Does 
this mean i should not recompile either one and leave them as is?

And last question, if this new splitting stuff causes breakage who will
solve this? is this a debian issue, a linux issue or should the sources 
of for example mplayer be changed?

Every time i start to think 'i'm getting the hang of linux' things
like this happen...lib stuff...compile stuff...at times i think i need 
spiked mountain shoes to climb the learning curve ;)

cheers


Colin Watson wrote:

> It includes the files in /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm which
> used to be part of libc6-dev. This is simply a packaging reorganization.
> Programs written that way always had a sword of potential breakage
> hanging over them. The standard way to deal with this at the moment,
> suboptimal though it is, is to copy the header files you need from the
> kernel and include them in your own package; that way you're safe from
> changes to glibc.
> The move to 2.6 headers was necessary in order to support NPTL in glibc.