Bug#423462: LINUX_VERSION_CODE is defined but has no value in
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:51:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:36:05AM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > This seems to trigger ftbfs in many packages - and it is very well hidden.
> > Raising severity.
> Any package depending on linux/version.h to detect a kernel version from
> user space is almost certainly buggy. This should probably be closed as
> not-a-bug and the affected packages fixed to not expect anything from
> linux/version.h.
No, it is not that wrong for software like libiw which needs linux
headers from specific versions. It does not use it to detect the running
version but to find the version of the provided headers.
Bastian
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