I discovered today, while attempting to compile the modutils for the
Linux 2.1.21 development kernel, that Debian installs a set of kernel
includes into /usr/include/{asm,linux}, rather than the standard
symlinks to the kernel source tree!
This causes an undefined symbol error; and only the gods know what
else. -- are there structures changed too?
I would like it if the libc maintainer would make his installation
setup so that the symlinks are created if the installer wants them,
and the headers if they want that... Just ask a question from the
install script maybe?
Perhaps kernel includes should be a separate package, and symlinks
created in /usr/include to them. I think that this is what most linux
programmers will expect to find in /usr/include.
If I upgrade libc, will that wipe out my kernel tree now that I've
'rm -r'd the /usr/include/{linux,asm} directories, and created
symlinks to /usr/src/linux/include/{linux,asm-i386}? I'd like it if
the libc maintainer's scripts would check for that also, please.
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Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
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