Re: Who is Kernel Headers ?

From: David (thunderbolt01_at_netscape.net)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:50:24 GMT

Wiseguy wrote:
>
> do the following symlinks exist? ... create them!
>
> /usr/src/linux -> /usr/src/linux{currentversion}
> /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/

TO QUOTE: Linux Torvalds

I would suggest that people who compile new kernels should:

  - not have a single symbolic link in sight (except the one that
the kernel build itself sets up, namely the "linux/include/asm"
symlink that is only used for the internal kernel compile itself)

And yes, this is what I do. My /usr/src/linux still has the old
2.2.13 header files, even though I haven't run a 2.2.13 kernel
in a _loong_time. But those headers were what Glibc was compiled
against, so those headers are what matches the library object files.

And this is actually what has been the suggested environment for
at least the last five years. I don't know why the symlink
business keeps on living on, like a bad zombie. Pretty much every
distribution still has that broken symlink, and people still
remember that the linux sources should go into "/usr/src/linux"
even though that hasn't been true in a _loong_ time. 

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