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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-02-19 22:16:42 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-02-19 22:16:42 +0000
commit81fd230419b0cfd052b08fc1ed352bb7d49975df (patch)
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parent2f9131f8390243dbc350fe2eeb9e1d58f0264888 (diff)
Trunk is now identical to Testing
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4648 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml b/chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml
index 5db583994..aa14b87bf 100644
--- a/chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml
+++ b/chapter06/linux-libc-headers.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package"><title/>
+<para>The Linux-Libc-Headers package contains the
+<quote>sanitized</quote> kernel headers.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -19,21 +21,34 @@
<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>22 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Linux-Libc-Headers installation depends on</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>Coreutils</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
+
</sect2>
<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><userinput>cp -R include/asm-i386 /usr/include/asm
cp -R include/linux /usr/include</userinput></screen>
-<para>Assure that all the headers are owned by root:</para>
+<para>Ensure that all the headers are owned by root:</para>
<screen><userinput>chown -R root:root /usr/include/{asm,linux}</userinput></screen>
-<para>And make sure all the users can read the headers:</para>
+<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>
@@ -43,8 +58,24 @@ find /usr/include/{asm,linux} -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;</userinput></screen>
<sect2 id="contents-linux-libc-headers" role="content"><title>Contents of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>
-<para>See testing</para>
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Installed headers</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
+
+<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+
+<varlistentry id="linux-libc-headers">
+<term><filename class="headerfile">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</filename></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>The Linux headers API</para>
+<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>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
+