Steve Dodd wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 10:02:24PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:32:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > > FWIW, the coming-very-soon Linux-Mandrake 7.1 beta will include a system
> > > service "kheader", which is run at boot time to make sure that the
> > > kernel source/include symlinks are correct for the kernel version
> > > currently running.
> >
> > I hope you realize that this is very undesirable [in case these symlinks are
> > the ones providing the <linux/foo.h> includes].
> >
> > I have been told that Debian has done this right for a long time already.
> > Is Mandrake now slowly going to reinvent the wheel, finally to adopt
> > the Debian solution?
> > Or do I misunderstand you?
>
> I think Jeff means that the /usr/src/linux symlink will be changed, not
> the ones in /usr/include.
oops wrong assumption on my part. It solves a different problem:
# kheader: This shell script regenerate the /boot/kernel.h header for
#
/usr/include/linux/{autoconf,version}.h
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