Re: [PATCH] asm*/resource.h fix for glibc

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:22:00 +0100


Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Debian ships with a set of known-good and stable kernel headers in
> /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm. Seems to work pretty well,
> even though people like tytso don't really agree ;)

Doesn't work when you've

> People just need to understand that you have to compile modules
> with -I/usr/src/linux/include or -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/include

Modules aren't the only things which need kernel headers, unfortunately.
Glibc will never be magically up to date with the ioctl of the day.

> A Makefile fragment in /usr/src/linux (say, config.mk) that keeps
> the CFLAGS that were used to compile the kernel would go a long
> way to getting people to use -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/include
> pretty much automatically.

Some standard fragment would be very cool for add-on modules.
But where do you put it?

I find my installed kernel source tree is often different to the one I'm
running. Often because the kernel in the source tree has bugs ;-)

> Module Makefiles then would look like something like this:
>
> # Point to kernel you want to build against
> TOPDIR=/usr/src/linux
>
> include $(KERNEL)/config.mk

It would be great if it weren't for that pesky /usr/src/linux thing.

-- Jamie

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