Re: octave installation problem - linux/limits.h

[Martin Helm]

Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2010 19:23:54 schrieb Przemek Klosowski:
> On 06/09/2010 01:15 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On  9-Jun-2010, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> > | On Fedora linux/limits.h is in kernel-headers too, which
> > | is required by glibc-headers which is required by glibc-devel
> > | so I think kernel headers need to be there.
> >
> > Hmm.  That doesn't seem to be the way it works on Debian systems,
> > which have /usr/include/linux/limits.h in the linux-libc-dev package.
> > On my system, this include file just has some #defines and doesn't
> > include any other files.  But whatever, if the kernel headers package
> > is required to get all the include files on your system, then I guess
> > you need it.  But shouldn't there be some dependency that forces it to
> > be installed if you install the libc development headers?
> 
> Oh, yeah, that's what I meant by 'required'; if you 'yum install
> glibc-devel', it'll make sure that kernel-headers are installed too.
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Just as a note from an opensuse user who regularly compiles the sources:

The gcc meta package depends on glibc-devel and this in turn depends on linux-
kernel-headers, so it will automatically be resolved and installed. Checked 
with opensuse 11.2.

So the installation in the original post seems to be somehow broken.

- mh