source: BOOK/final-system/x86/linux-headers.xml @ 9f08378

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Last change on this file since 9f08378 was 9f08378, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3564@server (orig r1629): chris | 2006-05-17 13:05:26 -0700
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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
[f097f3e]8<sect1 id="ch-system-linux-headers" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="linux-headers.html"?>
[3f8be484]10
[f097f3e]11  <title>Linux-Headers-&linux-headers-version;</title>
[3f8be484]12
[f097f3e]13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-headers">
14    <primary sortas="a-Linux-Headers">Linux-Headers</primary>
[3f8be484]15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
[f097f3e]20    <para>The Linux Headers package contains the
[3f8be484]21    <quote>sanitized</quote> kernel headers.</para>
22
23  </sect2>
24
25  <sect2 role="installation">
[f097f3e]26    <title>Installation of Linux-Headers</title>
[3f8be484]27
[9f08378]28    <para os="a">For years it has been common practice to use
29    <quote>raw</quote> kernel headers (straight from a kernel tarball) in
30    <filename class="directory">/usr/include</filename>, but over the last few
[3f8be484]31    years, the kernel developers have taken a strong stance that this
[4f049972]32    should not be done. This gave birth to the Linux-Libc-Headers Project,
[3f8be484]33    which was designed to maintain an API stable version of the Linux
[9f08378]34    headers. Recently this project stopped producing updates, so the Cross-LFS
35    team started development on our own project to sanitize the headers.</para>
[3f8be484]36
[91f60dc]37    <para os="b">Install the header files that are common to all architectures:</para>
[3f8be484]38
[91f60dc]39<screen os="c"><userinput>install -dv /usr/include/{asm,asm-generic,linux,net,mtd,scsi,sound}
40cp -av include/asm-generic/* /usr/include/asm-generic
[2df03f3]41cp -av include/linux/* /usr/include/linux
42cp -av include/mtd/* /usr/include/mtd
[f097f3e]43cp -av include/net/* /usr/include/net
44cp -av include/scsi/* /usr/include/scsi
45cp -av include/sound/* /usr/include/sound</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]46
[91f60dc]47    <para os="d">Install the header files that are specific to this architecture:</para>
48
49<screen><userinput>cp -av include/asm-i386/* /usr/include/asm</userinput></screen>
50
51    <para os="e">Ensure that all the headers are owned by
[3f8be484]52    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
53
[f8f8bd0]54<screen os="f"><userinput>chown -Rv root:root /usr/include/{asm,asm-generic,linux,mtd,net,scsi,sound}</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]55
[91f60dc]56    <para os="g">Make sure the users can read the headers:</para>
[3f8be484]57
[e75365c]58<screen os="h"><userinput>find /usr/include/{asm,asm-generic,linux,mtd,net,scsi,sound} -type d -exec chmod -v 755 {} \;
[91f60dc]59find /usr/include/{asm,asm-generic,linux,mtd,net,scsi,sound} -type f -exec chmod -v 644 {} \;</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]60
61  </sect2>
62
[f097f3e]63  <sect2 id="contents-linux-headers" role="content">
64    <title>Contents of Linux-Headers</title>
[3f8be484]65
66    <segmentedlist>
67      <segtitle>Installed headers</segtitle>
68
69      <seglistitem>
70        <seg>/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</seg>
71      </seglistitem>
72    </segmentedlist>
73
74    <variablelist>
75      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
76      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
77      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
78
[f097f3e]79      <varlistentry id="linux-headers">
[3f8be484]80        <term><filename
81        class="headerfile">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</filename></term>
82        <listitem>
83          <para>The Linux API headers</para>
[f097f3e]84          <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-headers linux-headers">
[3f8be484]85            <primary
86            sortas="e-/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</primary>
87          </indexterm>
88        </listitem>
89      </varlistentry>
90
91    </variablelist>
92
93  </sect2>
94
95</sect1>
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