On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 08:51, Ani Joshi wrote:
>
>
> On 2 Dec 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] D�nzer wrote:
>
> > Absolutely. /usr/include/{linux,asm} shouldn't be symlinks but
> > directories shipped with glibc.
>
> What? glibc doesn't have those directories, those should *indeed* be
> symlinks to /usr/src/linux/include/linux and /usr/src/linux/include/asm
> respectively.
No. Read it up on lkml. Linus has spoken very clearly on the topic.
Someone who found it out the hard way posted here not so long ago.
> This is how most distro's do it (or at least used to do it).
Any distro that still does it is severely broken IMHO.
> Since when did glibc have those directories?
I don't know about upstream but the Debian libc6-dev package has shipped
them for as long as I've been using it.
PS: Of course anyone _can_ make them symlinks if they know what they're
doing. But you're on your own then.
--
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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