When you run `make headers_install' from the kernel, it will remove all headers not from the kernel list in INSTALL_HDR_PATH. This bites people who try to reinstall them, usually because they want to go back in Ch. 6. Another person got bit by this the other day:
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2007-July/033327.html I think we should just use a temporary path and cp it to /usr/include since this is safer for all cases and removes the problem of silently removing glibc's headers. Does anyone have a problem with the patch below? -- Dan --- BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml | 10 ++++++++++ BOOK/chapter06/linux-headers.xml | 3 ++- BOOK/general.ent | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml b/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml index 239cb65..1ebf49a 100644 --- a/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -37,6 +37,16 @@ --> <listitem> + <para>2007-07-10</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[dnicholson] - Made the Linux API Headers install safer by + using an intermediate directory.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>2007-07-06</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> diff --git a/BOOK/chapter06/linux-headers.xml b/BOOK/chapter06/linux-headers.xml index d345736..db2ad95 100644 --- a/BOOK/chapter06/linux-headers.xml +++ b/BOOK/chapter06/linux-headers.xml @@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ <screen><userinput>make mrproper make headers_check -make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr headers_install</userinput></screen> +make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=dest headers_install +cp -rv dest/include/* /usr/include</userinput></screen> </sect2> diff --git a/BOOK/general.ent b/BOOK/general.ent index c4614fb..5b9741d 100644 --- a/BOOK/general.ent +++ b/BOOK/general.ent @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!ENTITY version "SVN-20070706"> -<!ENTITY releasedate "July 6, 2007"> +<!ENTITY version "SVN-20070710"> +<!ENTITY releasedate "July 10, 2007"> <!ENTITY milestone "6.3"> <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" --> -- 1.5.1.6 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
