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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:42:05 +0200
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Subject: Re: Building libnetfilter_queue has required kernel headers for some
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 12:30:14PM +1100, Duncan Roe wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> Just to clear up a misconception:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 06:09:06PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > To ensure that a project compiles standalone (without the need for the
> > system kernel header files), you can cache a copy of the header in
> > your software tree (we use this trick for a while in userspace
> > netfilter software).
> 
> The concept of a standalone build without kernel headers might have been valid
> once, but is invalid nowadays.

I am referring to netlink uapi files...