Comment 7 for bug 53892

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote : Re: [Bug 53892] Re: [Bug 53892] Re: Header files missing

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 20:10 +0000, Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 07:54:31PM -0000, Ben Collins wrote:
> > The gist of this is, if you are trying to access files like config.h,
> > autoconf.h and compiler.h, you are getting into kernel internals. The
> > linux-libc-dev package (formerely linux-kernel-headers) is not meant for
> > that. Even if these files were included they would be useless, since
> > they do not guarantee to reflect the right values for the running
> > kernel.
>
> Well, in the case of compiler.h, it's just an empty file on an
> up-to-date Dapper install. Anyhow, it's clearly your call. I'll just
> leave it commented out in the asterisk package. Thanks for your time.

Basically, if the package compiles without these includes, then it
didn't need them to begin with :)