Re: Bug#257738: kernel-headers basically useless
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:57:01 +0200, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> said:
> Package: kernel Severity: normal
> To my understanding, kernel-headers are to be used in compiling
> kernel modules. However, quite a few modules require
> $KERNELSOURCE/drivers, others try to execute `make modules` in the
> KSRC directory, and yet others only work with make-kpkg, which
> requires the kernel source.
You can build kere modules using kernel-package without
having the sources unpacked (look for IN_KERNEL_HEADERS in
/usr/share/kernel-package/rules) -- if this is not so, I would
appreciate being told what is going wrong.
> Either I am doing something wrong, or the kernel-headers packages
> are really not needed anymore.
However, I must confess I have not tested with the new 2.6
build mechanism.
manoj
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