Re: [PATCH] <bits/syscall.h>: Use an arch-independent system call list on Linux

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 04/06/2017 04:37 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 04:22:40PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > On 04/06/2017 03:44 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > On Apr 06 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > But the uapi kernel headers aren't separate upstream, and until they are,
> > > > the proposed new approach to SYS_* generation may be superior.
> > > >
> > > > Unless everyone else but us generates their own separate kernel-headers
> > > > package, that is. :-/
> > >
> > > Here is a script that does that.  It basically just runs make
> > > headers_install_all, and the result is put in a tarball.
> > >
> > > https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Base:System/linux-glibc-devel/install_all.sh?expand=1
> >
> > Thanks, I will take that under consideration.
> >
> > Further comments from anyone else?
>
> We also build kernel headers separately from the kernel, see
> http://git.altlinux.org/gears/g/..git?p=glibc-kernheaders.git;a=blob;f=glibc-kernheaders.spec

Do you (and other distributions) build applications against these 
headers as well, or are those only used for building glibc itself?

Thanks,
Florian