Re: Funny Dependencies !
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:51:50AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> # apt-get install libc6-dev
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> linux-kernel-headers
>
> Huh, why do we need kernel headers to compile "Hello World" ?
Because the headers in libc6-dev refer to types (and macros) declared in
linux-kernel-headers (such as size_t,...).
A while ago, libc6-dev actually included these headers itself, but this
has changed.
Note that the linux-kernel-headers is only meant for userspace
development. For kernel modules, you need the kernel-headers-* package.
> And who is supposed to know (and understand) these dependencies ?
The libc6 maintainers ?
Frank
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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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