Re: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

[Russell <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:08:46AM +1000, Russell wrote:
> > Michael Olds wrote:
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > I am still in a fog in terms of simple things like symlinks. What you want
> > > is to end up with a link in the linux directory called kernel-source-2.4.18
> > > that links to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18. So how should that be said?
> > >
> > > [ ]1.d create a symbolic link to kernel-source-2.4.18 from /usr/src/linux
> > > $ ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 /usr/src/linux
> >
> > No. I don't know if you even *need* the linux symlink. But if you
> > do, the symlink is /usr/src/linux and it points to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.
> 
> AFAIK, the symlink is mostly used when compiling source which looks for
> headers in /usr/src/linux/include.

That's what i understood, for other distros. I think for debian
you're supposed to do: ln -s /usr/include/linux/include /usr/src/linux

If you *need* the headers in the current kernel, then you
add -I/usr/src/linux/include/ to the command line when compiling.

  http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.en.html#s-non-debian-kernel

I think you need to apt-get the headers, because /usr/include/linux/include
doesn't seem to be on my system.