source: final-system/x86/linux-libc-headers.xml @ dd9906e

Last change on this file since dd9906e was dd9906e, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r1167@server (orig r1165): chris | 2006-02-11 08:13:02 -0800
Added -v to commands in the rest of the book

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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 and Findutils</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>install -dv /usr/include/{asm,linux,mtd,scsi}
47cp -arv include/asm-i386/* /usr/include/asm
48cp -arv include/linux/* /usr/include/linux
49cp -arv include/mtd/* /usr/include/mtd
50cp -arv include/scsi/* /usr/include/scsi</userinput></screen>
51
52    <para os="c">Ensure that all the headers are owned by
53    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
54
55<screen os="d"><userinput>chown -Rv root:root /usr/include/{asm,linux,mtd,scsi}</userinput></screen>
56
57    <para os="e">Make sure the users can read the headers:</para>
58
59<screen os="f"><userinput>find /usr/include/{asm,linux,mtd,scsi} -type d -exec chmod -v 755 {} \;
60find /usr/include/{asm,linux,mtd,scsi} -type f -exec chmod -v 644 {} \;</userinput></screen>
61
62  </sect2>
63
64  <sect2 id="contents-linux-libc-headers" role="content">
65    <title>Contents of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>
66
67    <segmentedlist>
68      <segtitle>Installed headers</segtitle>
69
70      <seglistitem>
71        <seg>/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</seg>
72      </seglistitem>
73    </segmentedlist>
74
75    <variablelist>
76      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
77      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
78      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
79
80      <varlistentry id="linux-libc-headers">
81        <term><filename
82        class="headerfile">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</filename></term>
83        <listitem>
84          <para>The Linux API headers</para>
85          <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers linux-libc-headers">
86            <primary
87            sortas="e-/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</primary>
88          </indexterm>
89        </listitem>
90      </varlistentry>
91
92    </variablelist>
93
94  </sect2>
95
96</sect1>
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