On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Frank Derichsweiler wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:08:15PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Frank Derichsweiler wrote:
> >
> > > - You need valid Linux kernel headers (!) which are included within
> > > the xforms test within configure. Having no proper includes in
> > > /usr/src/linux will result in a complaint about a non-working xforms
> > > lib.
> > >
> >
> > Just to clarify, this is essentially a SuSE bug, not a LyX problem.
> > They should not be including kernel headers directly.
> >
> I am not sure about that, but: I posted this problem to the LyX users
> list some weeks ago and the developers responded that they do not know
> how to produce a valid test for that.
> The only detail I know is the following: the configure generated file
> includes a xforms header which (indirectly (?)) includes some linux
> kernel header file for some constants.
> For _me_ everything is allright, I suggest to add a small note in the
> error message.
No, we have been through this before. Any distribution that requires the kernel
headers via the symlink like this is broken. Most modern ones are fixed now.
For the broken distributions, you *must* include the kernel headers in
the correct place if you hope to compile programs. This is simply a
requirement of the distribution in question. It has *nothing* to do with
LyX, and we should not have any special-case test.
Hopefully in two years everyone's distribution will be fixed and this issue
won't arise.
> I did not make any tests with other Linux distributions therefore I do
> not know. Perhaps somebody can try to compile on another Linux distrib
> without a kernel source tree (and without the kernel header files)
Distributions without this bug will work fine, because /usr/include/linux
and /usr/include/asm won't be symlinks.
john
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