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Re: woody header files ???



On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:19:37AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > If you're trying to compile a kernel module against a kernel version
> > more recent than the one libc6 was built against, then you'll need to
> > add (say) /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18/include to the include path.
> > 
> > What exactly are you working on?
> 
> I am trying to install a couple Perl modules (DBI & DBD::Pg); but, make
> fails for many missing headers.
> 
> The reason I posted on debian is the fact that I do not have these:
> 
> 	/usr/include/asm
> 	/usr/include/linux

In that case, you likely want to install the libc6-dev package, not
kernel headers. Kernel headers should never be used to compile userspace
programs.

woody does have the libdbi-perl and libdbd-pg-perl packages ...

> The referenced README's just got me more and more confused?  Are we
> supposed to link these by hand, again?

No, don't. Symbolic links for /usr/include/{asm,linux} are definitely
seven years' bad luck.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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