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Re: linux-kernel-headers???



On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:08:21AM +0000, Cyril Jaquier wrote:
> 
> >First of all, linux-kernel-headers has been replaced by linux-libc-dev. 
> 
> Ok. But linux-kernel-headers is still a virtual package. Isn't it?

  no, it doesn't exists anymore. ll-dev provides it to allow upgrades,
but no-one should depend upon it anymore at all.

> >But either way, the answer is the same: those packages install them in 
> >/usr/include, which is unpacked and accessible to any program being 
> >compiled.  linux-source-2.6.* (AFAIK) is not unpacked by default, and 
> >even when it is unpacked, the headers are not accessible under 
> >/usr/include.
> 
> linux-source-2.6.* is not unpacked by default (at least on my system). If 
> it was the case, a symlink from /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.*/include to 
> /usr/include/linux wouldn't do the trick? Mmmhhh... maybe 
> /usr/include/linux must point to the headers which were used to compile 
> glibc?

  no, /usr/include/linux files are in linux-libc-dev.
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
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