On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:05:49PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > for some value of work. I can guarantee you that this will break within the > > > next half year or so. > > > > Can you explain that? > > > Not using the headers that *exactly match* the kernel binary is broken. > Rebuilding a lot of stuff from /usr/src/<anything> is not going to > guarantee that it's an EXACT match. > > > choice please don't break it. You would be removing appreciated added > > value and would piss off all kernel-level ISVs and repos including > > fedora.us. > > It's broken infrastructure and is using implementation details instead > of properly provided infrastructure. Those implementation details are > subject to change. I mean that. Let me repeat it one more time: > > If you don't use the headers that come with the kernel binary, things > will break, now or in the future. What headers? RedHat and Fedora don't ship any kernel headers in kernels 2.4.x. And the only files under /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ are object files, the modules. > The fact that you could get away with it in the past does not mean that > it will remain working in the future. Maybe there was no other way in the past? Regards, Luciano Rocha > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
