Re: Linus's include file strategy redux

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@traveler.cistron-office.nl)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 19:14:04 EST


In article <NBBBJGOOMDFADJDGDCPHIENJCJAA.law@sgi.com>,
LA Walsh <law@sgi.com> wrote:
>Which works because in a normal compile environment they have /usr/include
>in their include path and /usr/include/linux points to the directory
>under /usr/src/linux/include.

No, that a redhat-ism.

Sane distributions simply include a known good copy of
/usr/src/linux/include/{asm,linux} verbatim in their libc6-dev package.

Debian has done that for a long, long time.

Several core glibc developers use Debian, are even Debian developers...

Mike.
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