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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds referencing /usr/src/linux makes baby Jesus kill kittens
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:42:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407232042.54805.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040723232250.6a3dbe33@snowdrop.home>

On Friday 23 July 2004 06:22 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Just a friendly reminder that you should really avoid messing around
> with /usr/src/linux inside ebuilds. In particular, code like the
> following is utterly wrong:
>
> if [ ! -e "/usr/src/linux/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h" ] ; then

the only packages that should poke around /usr/src/linux/ are kernel module 
packages ... and like donnie said, using ${ROOT}/usr/src/linux/ is ok

> You shouldn't be using /usr/src/linux for headers either. I suggest
> people give the following a good read before they commit even more
> broken code to the tree:

agreed, headers should be taken from the system
-mike

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-24  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-23 22:22 [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds referencing /usr/src/linux makes baby Jesus kill kittens Ciaran McCreesh
2004-07-23 22:52 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-07-24  0:42 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]

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