On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 22:35:49 +0000 (GMT) Iain Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Lukas Beeler wrote: > > * Parienti M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011125 21:57]: > > > Should I include the joystick support in the kernel, to have > > > the "#define ABS_WHEEL" in the /usr/include/linux? > > copy to file from your kernel source tree to > > /usr/include/linux, and it will work ( i think ) > > Some stuff expects /usr/include/linux to be a symlink to, I think it's > /usr/src/linux/include/linux and /usr/include/asm symlink to > /usr/src/linux/include/asm, and the currently-running kernel-source to be > in /usr/src/linux. > > Now... some people (er, Linus...) believe that's evil and bad and all > that, and /usr/include shouldn't point to any kernel headers. Others (er, > glibc people...) think .../asm/ and .../linux/ should be symlinks. Stuff > linux lm-sensors, the emu10k1 standalone module by default try > /usr/src/linux to find stuff (they're modules; they're allowed to use > kernel headers, by I think all definitions people use...). > > Looks like, possibly as a result of imake, XFree86 expects > /usr/include/linux to have current-kernel-level headers. > > And someone I know, who had 2.2 installed in /usr/src/linux (and had > compiled XFree86 OK before), extracted 2.4 somewhere else, build it, and > ran into all sorts of problems (this was the first; the X build system was > "tweaked" to not build the Wacom driver), but this was followed up by the > DRI and libGL stuff failing. > > He moved 2.4 to /usr/src/linux, and X promptly built OK. /usr/src/linux is a symlink to the the kernel source, but I still have the problem. > Now, I suppose you could get the makefiles to pass the right -I flag to > the compiler (er, fiddle with host.def in xc/config/cf) to include the 2.4 > headers, or disregard Linus's recommendadion to have the kernel elsewhere. What should I put in host.def to pass the right -I flag Micha�l P. _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
