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  <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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    <para>The Linux-Libc-Headers package contains the
    <quote>sanitized</quote> kernel headers.</para>

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      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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        <seg>&linux-libc-headers-ch6-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&linux-libc-headers-ch6-du;</seg>
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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>Add a header that is needed by some applications:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&linux-inotify-patch;</userinput></screen>

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

<screen><userinput>install -dv /usr/include/asm
cp -Rv include/asm-i386/* /usr/include/asm
cp -Rv include/linux /usr/include</userinput></screen>

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

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

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    <title>Contents of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>

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      <segtitle>Installed headers</segtitle>

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        <seg>/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</seg>
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          <para>The Linux API headers</para>
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            <primary sortas="e-/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</primary>
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