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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] asm*/resource.h fix for glibc
From:       "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery () kf8nh ! apk ! net>
Date:       1999-12-17 12:02:22
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In message <19991217101954.C31810@cistron.nl>, Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
+-----
| According to Ben Collins:
| > Well if the glibc-devel package comes with the headers, and you want to
| > use others, then rm -rf /usr/include/linux, and symlink. However, most new
| > users who just want to mess around with hello.c and crack open a basic C
| > book, don't want to worry about kernel versions and symlinks.
| 
| Argh no. You just broke your system. /usr/include/linux is managed
| by the packaging system - you just don't go around and replace things
| manually.
| 
| You simply upgrade glibc-devel to the latest version.
+--->8

See, that's not possible.  There is no glibc-devel for 2.0.7 with 2.2.13.  
There isn't going to be one.  And upgrading to glibc2.1 is a pain I'm not in 
a position to deal with at the moment --- and only defers the problem until 
the next time a new kernel doesn't match the installed glibc.

(hint:  glibc upgrades are much, much more painful than kernel upgrades.  
"upgrade glibc" isn't an answer.)

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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			kf8nh
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