Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron-office.nl)
Date: Sat Mar 10 2001 - 13:28:09 EST

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    In article <200103101754.f2AHsUL04580@mailout1-100bt.midsouth.rr.com>,
    Stephen "M." Williams <rootusr@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
    >Make sure you have the following symlinks in your /usr/include
    >directory, assuming you're on an x86 machine:
    >
    >asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/
    >linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/

    Note! You only have to have those symlinks on broken systems such
    as Redhat.

    Sane systems such as Debian have a copy of the kernel header files
    that the C library was compiled against in /usr/include/{linux,asm}
    instead of symlinks to the kernel source. Do not play the symlink
    trick on those systems.

    Before this turns into a flamewar: this has been discussed 20 or
    so times before, and both Linus and the glibc developers agree
    that you a distribution should do the latter. The headers you use
    to compile userland binaries should be the same as the C library
    was compiled against.

    If you need to compile a standalone module use -I/usr/src/linux/include

    Mike.

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