On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Saturday 02 August 2003 22:58, Adam Mercer wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:34:38PM -0500, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > > > Why is gentoo still using the headers from 2.4.19??? Shouldn't we be > > > using the headers of the kernel we have installed?? > > > > No, you should be using the headers from the kernel that glibc was built > > against not the kernel you have installed. > > > > People keep saying this, but on my machine I built glibc from stage1 install > and have only every used 2.4.20 - does the glibc ebuild for some reason use > headers within the glibc package rather than those installed? > > Could one hope that someone who understand this stuff would really explain it? Yes, I know about Linus's mail about it, but it helps only those who already know more than half of it. And what does the expression "the headers from the kernel that glibc was built against" means? a) The headers that were present when glibc was compiled (regardless of what kernel was used to compile it and what kernel one is using now)? b) The headers corresponding to the kernel that was active when glibc was compiled? c) Something else?
I guess the answer is a), because I upgraded glibc with kernel 2.4.21 and the headers are from 2.4.19, and I can't upgrade kernel-headers. Still, guessing is not knowing. Enlightement about this would be usefull to several generations of linuxers, and it would help to kill the bad zombie Linus talks about...:) -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
