Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:43:44PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> Right, so who are going to tell the glibc guys that ?
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> configure: error: GNU libc requires kernel header files from
> Linux 2.0.10 or later to be installed before configuring.
> The kernel header files are found usually in /usr/include/asm and
> /usr/include/linux; make sure these directories use files from
> Linux 2.0.10 or later.  This check uses <linux/version.h>, so
> make sure that file was built correctly when installing the kernel
> header
> files.  To use kernel headers not from /usr/include/linux, use the
> configure option --with-headers.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------

IIRC you're supposed to use some sort of sanitized copy, not the things
directly. IMHO the current state of affairs sucks as there is no
standard set of ABI headers, but grabbing them right out of the kernel
is definitely not the way to go.

-- wli