On Fre, 2003-04-04 at 16:32, Hilko Bengen wrote: > > I maintain the ulog-acctd package and have the problem that it does > not build on every architecture because a header file > (/usr/include/linux/netfilter/ipt_ULOG.h) is missing. At the moment, > the affected architectures are arm and m68k. This file is supposed to > be part of libc6-dev and as I understand the glibc build process, > headers to be included are taken from the installed kernel package. > > To my knowledge, Netfilter's ULOG target (and thus ipt_ULOG.h) > appeared in kernel version 2.4.18. On neither architecture, kernel > versions greater than 2.4.17 are available, so I guess using > ulog-acctd on those architectures would not make much sense, anyhow. > > In previous versions of ulog-acctd, I solved the problem by shipping > ipt_ULOG.h in the .diff, but my AM Andrew Suffield told me that this > is an ugly hack -- and I really have to agree.
Why? IMHO that's the only sensible solution for kernel headers. What if a future version of ulog-acctd needs something that the ipt_ULOG.h provided by libc6-dev doesn't provide yet, for example? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
