Re: New course for Debian University
In /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz:
"...unpack your kernel somewhere. Preferably somewhere other than
/usr/src/linux..."
It also adds "more on this later", but I found no explanation as to why, just
some possible places to unpack the sources to, none of which are
/usr/src/linux.
-Rob
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:24:18PM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote:
> Rob VanFleet wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, as I understood it, making a /usr/src/linux link is bad, /usr/include,
> > AFAIK, is not the issue. The module I tried to compiled looked for the
> > kernel-includes in /usr/src/linux/include. I'm just wondering why
> > /usr/src/linux is bad, and how to tell compiles to look somewhere other than
> > /usr/src/linux.
>
> I read this just the other day (don't recall where; prolly on
> kt.linuxcare.com). Making a symlink in /usr/include is BAD because
> compiling apps against kernel headers different from the kernel headers
> glibc was compiled against is BAD. Making a symlink from
> /usr/src/linux-version to /usr/src/linux is NOT bad; I have never done
> this any other way.
>
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