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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] linux symlinks
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:35:39 +1100

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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:23, Wolfgang Scheicher wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 06. Januar 2004 15:08 schrieb Treeve Jelbert:
> > I have just built linux-2.4.24.
> > [...]
> > can anyone explain why the /usr/src/linux symlink has not been updated?
>
> /usr/src/linux should actually not be needed anymore. (t think)
>
> the glibc spell should copy some kernel headers to /usr/include (instead of
> linking them), and the linux spell shouldn't touch them.
>
> actually i think that you can remove the /usr/src/linux symlink - but i
> switched myself just yesterday, and don't know if some spells still expect
> that /usr/src/linux to contain the current kernel
>
> Worf

when I changed the linux spell and glibc I also changed the other spells I
was
aware of. If I missed any sorry.
/usr/src/linux/ should be replaced by /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build, too
many
spells already used it internally (in makefiles and configure) so after a
discussion on IRC we decided to stop making the symlink.
The next stage is figuring out how to upgrade the kernel and have the correct
spells triggered for the just built but not yet booted version. This was
never handled properly before so the recent changes have not broken
anything, it would just be nice to have it done correctly by triggers.
What spell was this happenning in ?
Hamish
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