Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.
---Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, the kernel header files are getting to be quite
> architecture dependent, and hence if libc development packages
> continued to include kernel headers explicitly, we would need
> different headers for different architectures, resulting in
> libc6-dev-i386, libc6-dev-m68k, et. al.
>
This is more a problem of the fact that only the Alpha and i386
kernels are developed in the master tree; if a conscious effort was
made to keep the arch include headers in sync with the development
kernels for each port (which have constant locations) this wouldn't be
a problem.
Of course, this is further complicated because the kernels that aren't
developed in the master tree don't have consistent release timetables,
so they tend to skip master tree versions.
Chris
==
Chris Lawrence Email: quango@ix.netcom.com
Senior Political Science Major
University of Memphis Contract Programmer
Memphis, Tennessee, USA FedEx - Operations Research
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