On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:26 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:03:38AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > m-a don't need build-essential. It needs the compiler (nothing else like > > libc headers) for the kernel. The debian linux headers already depends > > against the correct compiler. > > Maybe so, but "m-a prepare" installs it. I don't know why it doesn't > just depend on it instead. Perhaps because the specific compiler needed depends on what the current kernel was compiled with? I thought that was the reason linux-headers depended on a specific compiler version. -- Edward Allcutt <ema29@srcf.ucam.org>
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