Bug#53379: libc6-dev has /usr/include/linux/
In article <cistron.19991223221351.A6243@usatoday.com>,
Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> wrote:
>glibc provides /usr/include/linux/ and /usr/include/asm/.
As God (well, Linus and Ulrich) intended it to be.
>This is probably best considered an upstream bug.
No.
>The kernel developers are fairly unanimous that glibc has no business
>using /usr/include/linux/ or /usr/include/asm/.
Absolutely not. There has been a lot of discussion on the kernel mailing
list about this last week, and a lot of kernel developers (including
Linus himself) think it's a GOOD thing that /usr/include/linux and
/usr/include/asm are included with glibc. Read the archives.
>These are to be used
>for building kernel modules and things that depend on specific kernel
>versions.
Definitely not true. For building modules you can simply use
-I/usr/src/linux-2.4.25/include.
>The recommendation for glibc is to use copies of whatever files it needs
>in some other directories.
PLEASE don't try to "fix" this. Debian is about the only distro that
actually gets this right. Don't break it, pretty please ....
Mike.
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