Duplicate kernel-headers after upgrading to 2.6.35

Ryad Ben-El-Kezadri ryad.bek at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 14:51:29 UTC 2010


The problem is that I need to
1)first patch the kernel
2)then compile some apps in userland with my new patched kernel

My problem is that
I do not know what kernel version (old or new) to use for step 1 and step 2.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Kyle McMartin <kyle at mcmartin.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 04:16:35PM +0200, Ryad Ben-El-Kezadri wrote:
> > I will have to compile applications in userland that needs the new
> headers.
> > Can I safely remove the old headers?
> >
>
> Unless you need something from the new ones, you should probably keep
> the /old/ headers instead, since those are the ones the C library is
> built against (roughly.) I'm not entirely sure why that wiki page
> recommends installing new headers, but it probably shouldn't.
>
> --Kyle
>


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