Bug#35113: libc6-dev: not able to compile itself with headers in this package

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 20:08 -0500 1999-03-26, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:37:37PM -0000, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Package: libc6-dev
> > Version: 2.1.1-0.1
> >
> > running configure fragment for
> > /home/joey/debian/pentium/TEMP/glibc-2.1.1/glibc-
> > 2.1.1/linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux
> > running configure fragment for
> > /home/joey/debian/pentium/TEMP/glibc-2.1.1/glibc-
> > 2.1.1/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux
> > checking installed Linux kernel header files... TOO OLD!
> > configure: error: GNU libc requires kernel header files from
> > Linux 2.0.10 or later to be installed before configuring.
> > The kernel header files are found usually in /usr/include/asm and
> > /usr/include/linux; make sure these directories use files from
> > Linux 2.0.10 or later.  This check uses <linux/version.h>, so
> > make sure that file was built correctly when installing the kernel header
> > files.  To use kernel headers not from /usr/include/linux, use the
> > configure option --with-headers.
>
> The problem is that ${KERNEL_SOURCE} in debian/rules does not have a
> default.  Just exporting it as /usr will work.

Not true, the default is /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.1, it is set in 
debian/sysdeps.mk.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                     <URL:http://web.espy.org/>
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