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Re: woody header files ???



Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thank you -- libc6-dev is it!

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