Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symlinks into -common

[ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> OpenAFS *does* use kbuild.  Aaron, what exactly breaks?  Example error
> messages?  Is it just the symlinking to standardize the names of the
> header files across platforms that doesn't work?

Yes:

|   CC [M] /usr/src/modass/usr_src/modules/openafs/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.29-1-amd64-MP/afs_atomlist.o
| In file included from /usr/src/modass/usr_src/modules/openafs/include/afs/afs_sysnames.h:25,
|                  from /usr/src/modass/usr_src/modules/openafs/include/afs/param.h:55,
|                  from /usr/src/modass/usr_src/modules/openafs/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.29-1-amd64-MP/afs_atomlist.c:11:
| /usr/src/modass/usr_src/modules/openafs/include/afs/stds.h:14:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory

followed by a cascade of other errors, starting with

| In file included from /usr/src/modass/usr_src/modules/openafs/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.29-1-amd64-MP/afs_atomlist.c:17:
| /usr/src/modass/usr_src/modules/openafs/src/util/afs_atomlist.h:54: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘atom_size’

OpenAFS could probably adapt by changing h, netinet, and sys under
MODLOAD-* from symlinks to .../include/linux to directories containing
forwarding headers; I'm not sure which specific headers would need
such treatment, but I suspect there are quite a few.

Please let me know if you'd like any other information.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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