> If you recompiled the kernel as you have stated. Simply type this
> command:
> 
> ls /boot/kern*
> 
> if you can see anything along the lines of kernel.h or
> kernel.h-(kernel version). There you will find your kernel headers
> alla no kernel header rpm. Thus, hopefully that will shed some light
> on the concept of the revised kernel-header-rpm-with-the-glibc
> -marriage concept.-- 

OK! this may solve my problem as well... This matches my kernel ... now
the question comes.... Does this mean that Mandrake has to build a new
glibc for every older distro when 2.6 comes out?  Or do they just never
receive the benefit of a new kernel?  Same thing for RH ... I know of a
location with 3 2000 box clusters (yep they do monstrous calculations)
and they are all RH 7.2.  I don't mean to sound cynical or stupid.(never
do but it often happens so I apologize.)  But I just spent about 8 days
editing code because one of our marketing people came up with a great
idea for the names of the directories in the product. (No one will ever
see or care... the idiot is a windwoze user any way. *grin*)  Most of
the trouble was the fact that I gave a hoot about backwards
compatibility and even though our user base is small I'm a nut about
making sure that we don't break anyone ..... anywhere..... anytime.  
Heck I even went to terms with the web people because you couldn't see
the website correctly in 4.x Netscape.  (it also wasn't w3c compliant
then.... but by golly it is now!) So this is where my hesitation comes
from.  As our user base grows the number of Users with legacy systems
that they can't "wipe and re-install" will grow.  I upgraded a working
2.8 FreeBSD system the other day to 4.5 ... while running and except for
the reboot time it never dropped a beat.  Try that one with WindWoze. 
Backwards compatibility and data preservation is a must for all of us.

James

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