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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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| 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-linux-libc-headers" role="wrap">
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| 7 | <title>Linux-Libc-Headers-&linux-libc-headers-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="linux-libc-headers.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers">
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| 11 | <primary sortas="a-Linux-Libc-Headers">Linux-Libc-Headers</primary>
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| 12 | </indexterm>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <segmentedlist>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 19 | <seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>22 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 20 | </segmentedlist>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | </sect2>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 25 | <title>Installation of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <para>For years it has been common practice to use so-called <quote>raw</quote>
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| 28 | kernel headers (straight from a kernel tarball) in <filename class="directory">/usr/include</filename>, but over the
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| 29 | last few years, the kernel developers have taken a strong stance that such
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| 30 | things should not be done. Thus was born the linux-libc-headers project,
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| 31 | designed to maintain an API stable version of the Linux headers.</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>Install the header files:</para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <screen><userinput>cp -R include/asm-i386 /usr/include/asm
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| 36 | cp -R include/linux /usr/include</userinput></screen>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <para>Assure that all the headers are owned by root:</para>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <screen><userinput>chown -R root:root /usr/include/{asm,linux}</userinput></screen>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <para>And make sure all the users can read the headers:</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <screen><userinput>find /usr/include/{asm,linux} -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
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| 45 | find /usr/include/{asm,linux} -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;</userinput></screen>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | </sect2>
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| 48 |
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <sect2 id="contents-linux-libc-headers" role="content"><title>Contents of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <segmentedlist>
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| 53 | <segtitle>Installed headers</segtitle>
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| 54 | <seglistitem><seg>/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</seg></seglistitem>
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| 55 | </segmentedlist>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <variablelist><title>Short description</title>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <varlistentry id="linux-libc-headers">
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| 60 | <term><filename class="headerfile">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</filename></term>
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| 61 | <listitem>
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| 62 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers linux-libc-headers"><primary sortas="e-/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</primary></indexterm>
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| 63 | <para>This files are the Linux headers API.</para>
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| 64 | </listitem>
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| 65 | </varlistentry>
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| 66 | </variablelist>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | </sect2>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | </sect1>
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