On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:06:46AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > True -- *but*, it must be pointed out that this is historic! > In a modern GNU/Linux distribution, /usr/include/linux should > *not* be a symlink to anything at all. It should be a plain > directory containing the kernel header files with which the > GNU libc was built.
If this is true, I must respectfully point out that the real problem is libc6. I upgraded my system to libc6 by hand, and I *never* saw any advice (or "instruction" should be a better word) to make /usr/include/linux a real directory, nor any advice to keep the libc6-compile-time kernel header files anywhere, nor any advice where to put the current kernel header files. If such a drastic change in convention had taken place and I have never read about it when I did my upgrade (which was not very long ago -- I put off upgrading to libc6 until very recently, and I did google for advice for fear of breaking my system), then I have to agree with Joerg that Linux is being very inconsistent, but I will say that the greatest problem is not in the kernel, but in libc6. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
