Re: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:54:34PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Lastly, are you aware of following facts (Content from recent post by
> prominent Debian person. I am worried about mine ...):
>
> * kernel header files for user application
>
> Some may still say:
> > The problem under Debian and SuSE is that the Linux kernel is
> > not installed under /usr/src/linux - so you just need to ensure
> > that /usr/src/linux links to the directory containing the Linux
> > kernel sources. ...
>
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> said:
> That is absolutely terrible advice. It's a very good way to break a Debian
> system, and you should ignore it. Linus doesn't recommend this old way of doing
> things nowadays either.
I didn't say that in that context. There's nothing wrong with
/usr/src/linux as long as you keep it *well* out of /usr/include.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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