David Eastcott wrote: > On Thursday 19 September 2002 11:53 pm, you wrote: > >>On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:36:17PM +1000, John McQuillen wrote: >> >>>How about an explanation of what has changed in the packaging of the >>>kernel sources for 2.4.19? >>> >>>I for one would appreciate an understanding of why kernel-headers is no >>>longer required. >> >>You're getting such responses because you asked a question that has been >>covered many many many times on this list. Check the archives before >>you post. But read this thread and it will answer your question: >>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=101702020405529&w=2 > > > Read through the thread, understood the arguments for both sides, but it > still leaves one with a nagging concern that there may be a consistency > problem between the declarations in the header files for 2.4.18 and 2.4.19. > > dave
Someone in this thread says that they are the same headers. That is not true, otherwise these headers would be updated every time the kernel-source was updated. But, I have tried to build NVIDIA_kernel with just kernel-headers installed (and as reported on this list, I get unresolved symbols), but now if I install the kernel-source, besides whining about it directly including kernel source headers, it compiles without problems. So this leads to two conclusions: Either the kernel-headers are somewhat incompatible with the actual headers in kernel-source, or there is a bug in the NVIDIA_kernel RPM where it's including the headers from the wrong kernel (i.e. some other (custom) kernel source I may have had in /usr/src/linux). But I didn't get much sleep last night, so right now I am too tired to figure out which. -- Sincerely, David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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