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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] 2.6.0-test10 sorcery rebuild -> 51 failed spells
  • Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 03:25:33 +0100

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:25:36PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:52, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > A note (unrelated to the compile problems caused by 2.6), this copying
> > of kernel headers to /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm[-generic]
> > should really happen as soon as possible. The symlinks are a historic
> > practice apparently from the libc4 days. You can find lots of flamewars
> > about this if you google a bit, but Linus says those should always be
> > the headers glibc was compiled against, lfs and debian do this already,
> > don't know about other distros.
> >  
>
> A good reason not to set up glibc to do this now is that 2.6 kernels don't
> work ... haha just kidding.
> AFAIK the intention is to ASK(firmly) if the user wants to copy the current
> kernel headers to /usr/include during glibc CONFIGURE so I guess a warning
> for 2.6.0 would be in order and those living on the cutting edge will have
> to
> manually manage their symlinks until kernel and userspace developers come
> to
> some arrangement.
> just double checking, is it only these three symlink destinations or have I
> missed something ?
> /usr/include/asm -> ../src/linux/include/asm-i386
> /usr/include/asm-generic -> ../src/linux/include/asm-generic
> /usr/include/linux -> ../src/linux/include/linux

Those are all links that are currently done.

> and specifically what files should be checked for, modversions.h and
> autoconf.h ? any others ? It would be a shame to copy unconfigured headers
> somehow so those *generated* files should be checked for too.

version.h

> Hamish

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