From: Martin Costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr>
To: "Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com>
Cc: Michael Norton <mnorton@cisco.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: kernel source rpm
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:33:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39FD404C.2E213ADA@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: v04220802b622ea31cf0b@[10.0.0.42]
"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.
--
Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-30 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-28 19:36 kernel source rpm Michael Norton
2000-10-30 9:08 ` Timothy A. Seufert
2000-10-30 9:33 ` Martin Costabel [this message]
2000-10-30 10:16 ` Ethan Benson
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