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  • From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • To: Wolfgang Scheicher <worf AT sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
  • Cc: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] linux symlinks
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:31:06 -0600 (CST)

I know at the very least the slmodem package (winmodem drivers) expects
the kernel source to be in /usr/src/linux. We don't have a spell for this
yet, but I suppose the spell could be mangled into looking in the right
place for the currently running kernel.

-casey


On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, 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
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