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<sect1 id="ch-system-linux-libc-headers" role="wrap" arch="x86">
<title>Linux-Libc-Headers-&linux-libc-headers-version;</title>
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<primary sortas="a-Linux-Libc-Headers">Linux-Libc-Headers</primary>
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<sect2 role="package"><title/>
<para>The Linux-Libc-Headers package contains the
<quote>sanitized</quote> kernel headers.</para>

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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>22 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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<segtitle>Linux-Libc-Headers installation depends on</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Coreutils</seg></seglistitem>
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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>

<para>For years it has been common practice to use <quote>raw</quote>
kernel headers (straight from a kernel tarball) in <filename
class="directory">/usr/include</filename>, but over the last few
years, the kernel developers have taken a strong stance that this
should not be done. This gave birth to the Linux-Libc-Headers Project,
which was designed to maintain an API stable version of the Linux
headers.</para>

<para>Install the header files:</para>

<screen arch="x86"><userinput>cp -R include/asm-i386 /usr/include/asm
cp -R include/linux /usr/include</userinput></screen>

<screen arch="ppc"><userinput>cp -R include/asm-ppc /usr/include/asm
cp -R include/linux /usr/include</userinput></screen>

<para>Ensure that all the headers are owned by root:</para>

<screen><userinput>chown -R root:root /usr/include/{asm,linux}</userinput></screen>

<para>Make sure the users can read the headers:</para>

<screen><userinput>find /usr/include/{asm,linux} -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /usr/include/{asm,linux} -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;</userinput></screen>

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<sect2 id="contents-linux-libc-headers" role="content"><title>Contents of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>

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<segtitle>Installed headers</segtitle>
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<term><filename class="headerfile">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</filename></term>
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<para>The Linux headers API</para>
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