Thanks for explaining this in the other thread aswell. What i wanted to ask, could this package be the cause of custom 2.4.22 kernels not going past INIT (today's update fixed this problem) which i and a few other people experienced over the last weekend?
The original poster mentioned both mplayer and xawtv breakage, both i use because the server(mplayer self compiled)acts as a vcr aswell. Does this mean i should not recompile either one and leave them as is?
And last question, if this new splitting stuff causes breakage who will
solve this? is this a debian issue, a linux issue or should the sources of for example mplayer be changed?
Every time i start to think 'i'm getting the hang of linux' things
like this happen...lib stuff...compile stuff...at times i think i need spiked mountain shoes to climb the learning curve ;)
cheers
Colin Watson wrote:
It includes the files in /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm which used to be part of libc6-dev. This is simply a packaging reorganization. Programs written that way always had a sword of potential breakage hanging over them. The standard way to deal with this at the moment, suboptimal though it is, is to copy the header files you need from the kernel and include them in your own package; that way you're safe from changes to glibc. The move to 2.6 headers was necessary in order to support NPTL in glibc.
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