Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:18:29PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > I don't know whether this package needs to match the kernel version or
> > > not, but if not I think the name is poorly chosen.
> >
> > It does not need to. Feel free to propose a patch to document this
> > more clearly (I don't really want to rename it again...)
>
> Not normally, but installing 2.5/2.6 based header files can break
> attempts to build 2.4 modules --- openafs-modules-source broke as a
> direct result of installing linux-kernel-headers 2.5.99-test7-bk-6.
If openafs-modules-source was using the headers in /usr/include then it
was broken already. I find that hard to believe, since kernel modules
must be built against headers that match the running kernel and there's
no way that /usr/include/linux on a Debian system could ever reliably
match the running kernel.
Please provide more detail.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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