Re: compiling kernel 2.0.33, libc6-dev
On 01 Apr 1998 12:27:13 CST, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The kernel is delibrately independent of any kernel related
> header files you may have installed (or that libc6 uses). It is OK to
> compile 2.0.33 on your machine.
That's good.
> The newer kernel-source packages do not provide kernel-headers
> anymore, since the kernel-source package is architecture independent,
> and kernel-headers actually vary between architectures.
Then does the kernel-* package information (whatever it's called) needs
to be updated?
----------8<---------
Description: Linux kernel source.
This package provides the source code for the Linux kernel, as well
as the scripts that maintain the symbolic link /usr/src/linux). This
also contains everything in the package kernel-headers-2.0.33, and
thus
if you install kernel-source-2.0.33 you do not also need to install
kernel-headers-2.0.33.
----------8<---------
I still don't understand why libc6-dev depends on kernel-headers-2.0.32.
I realize I'm almost certainly showing off my ignorance, but this
seems highly counter-intuitive. Would someone please briefly explain
how a programming language library depends on (of all things)
kernel-headers-2.0.32? Call me what you will, this just seems silly.
I'd like to uninstall kernel-header-2.0.32 now that I have
kernel-headers-2.0.33 and kernel-source-2.0.33 installed, but dselect
won't let me. Why do I still need kernel-headers-2.0.32?
I smell something fishy going on here.
> May I recommend kernel-package package from misc? It has been
> designed to minimize problems during a kernel compliation. Please do
> read /usr/soc/kernel-package/README.gz for step by step instructions
> and pitfalls. I shall include the Rationale for kernel-package below
I've used kernel-package several times and I think it's great.
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