Re: Linux Kernel include files

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

> Cdrtools ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ offer support for an OS 
> dependent SCSI transport. Cdrtools cannot be compiled wihout support for SCSI 
> transport, so it is impossible to use Sun Studio to compile cdrtools.
> 
> Why does this happen?
> 
> Well, the reason is that in order to support Linux specific features, you need 
> to include Linux specific include files (the Linux kernel include files).


I assume you typoed and meant "cleaned up kernel include files as
installed by make headers_install" instead.

>  As 
> these include files are currently not written in vanilla (ANSI) C but in a 
> GCC-C-variant, other compilers do not like these include files.

can you give a specific example of a header installed by make
headers_install that breaks this way and is hurting you? Because it may
well be possible to fix the problems, now that we have this special
cleanup phase since several releases....


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