Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:19:08PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Just to make my long-ranted point again: the kernel header for coda.h
> > is the definition of the kernel interface, and this should be
> > maintained with (and compiled with) the kernel code, and installed
> > under /usr/include someplace _by the kernel_.  Coda userland should
> 
> But on Linux it is, however it is not related to the current kernel but
> depends on whatever kernel version libc was built against. I guess it is
> done so differently because there is no equivalent to 'make world'.

OK, so if they do it that way having a libc version installed that
doesn't match/wasn't compiled with the the running kernel version is
simply broken and must be avoided.  That's a natural consequence of
one package defining interfaces for another.

-- 
        Greg Troxel <gdt_at_ir.bbn.com>