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["Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

Maybe it came from the glibc kernel headers once upon a time.

Jeremy