On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 15 Dec 00 at 10:23, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:14:04AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >
> > > It's the version that's in cvs, I just did an cvs update. It's
> > > been in it for ages. If it's wrong, someone *please* correct it.
> >
> > I think this is the important part.
> > This subject has come up quite a few times in the past
> > couple of weeks on the scyld (eepro/tulip) mailing lists.
> >
> > Essentially, whatever solution is implemented MUST ensure :
> >
> > 1 - glibc will work properly (the headers in /usr/include/* don't
> > change in an incompatible manner)
> >
> > 2 - programs that need to compile against the current kernel MUST
> > be able to do so in a quasi-predictable manner.
>
> Maybe you did not notice, but for months we have
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include, which points to kernel headers,
> and which should be used for compiling out-of-tree kernel modules
> (i.e. latest vmware uses this).
This symlink really should be a copy instead, because the finished kernel
may be installed on a machine that does not have kernel source installed
on it. Dangling symlinks are BAD.
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