source: final-system/x86/linux-libc-headers.xml@ 8abe4a82

Last change on this file since 8abe4a82 was beddd7f, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r881@server (orig r879): jim | 2005-12-09 22:55:46 -0800

r1034@server: jim | 2005-12-09 22:53:05 -0800
Removal of sound sanitized headers


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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
8<sect1 id="ch-system-linux-libc-headers" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="linux-libc-headers.html"?>
10
11 <title>Linux-Libc-Headers-&linux-libc-headers-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers">
14 <primary sortas="a-Linux-Libc-Headers">Linux-Libc-Headers</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Linux-Libc-Headers package contains the
21 <quote>sanitized</quote> kernel headers.</para>
22
23 <segmentedlist>
24 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26 <seglistitem>
27 <seg>Coreutils</seg>
28 </seglistitem>
29 </segmentedlist>
30
31 </sect2>
32
33 <sect2 role="installation">
34 <title>Installation of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>
35
36 <para os="a">For years it has been common practice to use <quote>raw</quote>
37 kernel headers (straight from a kernel tarball) in <filename
38 class="directory">/usr/include</filename>, but over the last few
39 years, the kernel developers have taken a strong stance that this
40 should not be done. This gave birth to the Linux-Libc-Headers Project,
41 which was designed to maintain an API stable version of the Linux
42 headers.</para>
43
44 <para os="b">Install the header files:</para>
45
46<screen><userinput>cp -R include/asm-i386 /usr/include/asm
47cp -R include/linux /usr/include
48cp -R include/mtd /usr/include
49cp -R include/scsi /usr/include</userinput></screen>
50
51 <para os="c">Ensure that all the headers are owned by
52 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
53
54<screen os="d"><userinput>chown -R root:root /usr/include/{asm,linux,mtd,sound,scsi}</userinput></screen>
55
56 <para os="e">Make sure the users can read the headers:</para>
57
58<screen os="f"><userinput>find /usr/include/{asm,linux,mtd,sound,scsi} -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
59find /usr/include/{asm,linux,mtd,sound,scsi} -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;</userinput></screen>
60
61 </sect2>
62
63 <sect2 id="contents-linux-libc-headers" role="content">
64 <title>Contents of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>
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
79 <varlistentry id="linux-libc-headers">
80 <term><filename
81 class="headerfile">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</filename></term>
82 <listitem>
83 <para>The Linux API headers</para>
84 <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers linux-libc-headers">
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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