From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12557 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Feb 2003 10:11:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 8999 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2003 10:11:53 -0000 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:05:18 -0800 From: Joseph Carter To: Gentoo Developer Message-ID: <20030213100518.GA10541@galen.bluecherry.net> References: <20030213084148.GA10592@dokom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030213084148.GA10592@dokom.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: Linux galen.bluecherry.net 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 X-No-Junk-Mail: Spam will solicit a hostile reaction, at the very least. Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-headers in baselayout X-Archives-Salt: 6817af83-ff25-4808-8322-beb92c5ef42b X-Archives-Hash: f4e3b38a791fc84034b759ff57406a62 --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:41:48AM +0100, Ingo Krabbe wrote: > I have a small problem with linux headers as a dependency in > baselayout. Hmm, I don't know exactly why I encounter it at all: >=20 > Linux headers install /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm. >=20 > A normal developer configuration would be to link > /usr/src/linux/include/linux -> /usr/include/linux and > /usr/src/linux/include/asm -> /usr/include/asm Linus Torvalds has said repeatedly that these should match the glibc headers, NOT your current kernel. He justified himself, and others have provided the same and other good reasons not to have those be symlinks. For some reason, people refuse to listen. --=20 Joseph Carter A mighty Oak is the result of ^ a nut a nut that held its ground =20 Try intercal. You will never hate another programming language again. -- Richard Braakman --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: 1024D/20F62261F1857A3E79FC44F98FF7D7A3DCF9DAB3 iEYEARECAAYFAj5Lbd4ACgkQj/fXo9z52rPONwCfYNHpVf4PZAYC+ZujeVru8Cr7 EmoAmQGURyoR9sAbq+pKmr76bKa4EtfA =yZxe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC--