[SM-Discuss] compile error

Arwed von Merkatz v.merkatz at gmx.net
Wed Sep 26 12:46:23 EDT 2007


On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:49:54AM +0000, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> David Brown wrote:
> >> This is the same error I reported.  As you suggested just remove the
> >> link and recast.  At some point we must have been creating such a link.
> >>
> > 
> > The only thing I can think of is the older iso's 0.9.4 maybe or something...
> > 
> > - David Brown
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> 
> Maybe... but my initial install was on 1/21/2002.  I haven't touched an
> iso since then and have just been using sorcery to update.

We could add a safeguard against this case to the glibc spell:
before installing the headers, check if /usr/include/asm-generic is a
symlink and remove it when it is.
I'm not sure where the symlink came from originally, but this could be a
serious problem for users.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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