kernel source rpm

kernel source rpm

[Michael Norton]

hi,

I am working on an application which requires the header file <linux/limits.h>.
Which file do I need to rpm from the LinuxPPC 2000 CD-Rom to install kernel source?

thanks,

Mike


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Re: kernel source rpm

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 12:36 PM -0700 10/28/00, Michael Norton wrote:
>hi,
>
>I am working on an application which requires the header file
><linux/limits.h>.
>Which file do I need to rpm from the LinuxPPC 2000 CD-Rom to install kernel
>source?

Don't do that.  Kernel header files are not intended to be directly
#include'd into user applications.  Use the the GNU C and/or C++
libraries and headers like you're supposed to, and you will not
depend on kernel files at all.

   Tim Seufert

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Re: kernel source rpm

[Martin Costabel]

"Timothy A. Seufert" wrote:
>
> At 12:36 PM -0700 10/28/00, Michael Norton wrote:
> >hi,
> >
> >I am working on an application which requires the header file
> ><linux/limits.h>.
> >Which file do I need to rpm from the LinuxPPC 2000 CD-Rom to install kernel
> >source?
>
> Don't do that.  Kernel header files are not intended to be directly
> #include'd into user applications.  Use the the GNU C and/or C++
> libraries and headers like you're supposed to, and you will not
> depend on kernel files at all.

This is correct in the Linus-approved True Linux Userspace (tm). Problem
is that on RedHat based systems like linuxppc, glibc doesn't contain
/usr/include/linux except as a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux.
So you need either kernel sources from some archive or the
"kernel-headers" RPM.

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Martin

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Re: kernel source rpm

[Ethan Benson]

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On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote:

> > Don't do that.  Kernel header files are not intended to be directly
> > #include'd into user applications.  Use the the GNU C and/or C++
> > libraries and headers like you're supposed to, and you will not
> > depend on kernel files at all.
> 
> This is correct in the Linus-approved True Linux Userspace (tm). Problem
> is that on RedHat based systems like linuxppc, glibc doesn't contain
> /usr/include/linux except as a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux.
> So you need either kernel sources from some archive or the
> "kernel-headers" RPM.

or Debian GNU/Linux

/me ducks

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Ethan Benson
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