Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 11:24:55AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> I tried to install vmware over the weekend and it wanted to compile a
> kernel module for my 2.2.10 kernel. It complained because my linux
> kernel header version was still 2.2.9. I looked and sure enough,
> /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm were both real directories with
> real files.
>
> Aren't these typically supposed to be symlinks to /usr/src/linux/...?
>
> Also, how did the headers there get up to 2.2.9? I haven't done
> anything fancy to copy headers into those directories, and I've been
> downloading kernel patches from www.linuxhq.com etc, not the Debian
> packages. Does the normal kernel build usually install these? I wonder
> why it didn't for 2.2.10?
In Debian, the headers in /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm are
not symlinks to the kernel source, but are supplied by libc6-dev. As
this is periodically upgraded, they may be based on newer kernels--the
current potato version comes from 2.2.9.
What I did to compile the vmware modules is to mv /usr/lib/linux to some
other location and replace it with a symlink to the headers in my 2.2.10
kernel source. You can probably use symlinks all the time, but you
should read /usr/doc/libc6-dev/FAQ.Debian.gz to understand the rationale
as to why the headers are packaged this way.
Bob
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