On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:52:42AM -0700, David Schleef wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:53:29AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > The glibc build rules doesn't correctly find the headers installed. > > > There are bugs filed on this, both on glibc and kernel-headers (for > > > providing too many) but I can't find the numbers because brainfood > > > is down. > > > > The glibc rules aren't responsible for "finding" anything. They are > > responsible for defining them. If ppc doesn't have 2.4 kernel headers, > > there's the bug, not in glibc. > > > Sorry about that, the "bug" in glibc I was referring to appears to > have been fixed. A while ago, building on powerpc would fail if > you had either -sparc headers or multiple kernel header packages > installed. > > To me, the real bug is having N kernel header packages. I'm > assuming that they all describe the same binary kernel interface, > otherwise packages are forced depend on a particular type of > kernel header. And if they all describe the same binary kernel > interface, why do we need N of them?
Some modules need to be built with the exact kernel headers from the kernel-image you are running. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
