XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: user@example.net   
      
   AZ Nomad wrote:   
   > On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:08:09 GMT, Mark Hobley  wrote:   
   >> In alt.os.linux.gentoo Nikos Chantziaras  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> The headers in /usr/src/linux cannot be used by userspace programs.   
   >>> linux-headers is a modified set of kernel headers made for that purpose.   
   >   
   >> Huh? If I have installed my own kernel, do I have to do anything with   
   >> the headers? Don't the headers have to match the kernel?   
   >   
   > Gentoo isn't like other distributions where there are separate binary   
   > and -dev packages.   Gentoo packages are all source packages.   
   >   
   > Gentoo doesn't have separate kernel headers and kernel binaries   
   > either. The package Gentoo-sources contains all the files, including   
   > source and headers needed for building the kernel and for any user   
   > compiled kernel modules.   
   >   
   > gentoo's linux-headers is for applications to use and goes into   
   > /usr/include.   
   >   
      
   Keep in mind that having glibc/uclib built against the kernel-headers that is   
   dependently linked to the kernel you use will give you the full benefit, while   
   having glibc compiled against older kernel-headers can lead to that glibc   
   lacks some features.   
      
   In binary distributions you get those three in a group, new kernel,   
   kernel-headers and new glibc (if new features given in the kernel).   
      
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