Re: Using kernel headers that are not for the running kernel

[Jesper Juhl]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Nick Bartos wrote:

> I have a little distro that I am trying to upgrade to 2.6.x.
>
> The problem is that when I use the headers for 2.6.x, glibc 2.2.5 won't
> compile.  Eventually I want to upgrade glibc/gcc, but not at the moment.
> If I use the headers from 2.4.26 for the system, but just compile the
> 2.6.7 kernel, things do compile fine for everything.
>
[snip]
>
> Comments?
> -

I think this covers the issues you are having pretty well :
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/usr-src-linux-symlink.html


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Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>

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