* Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds referencing /usr/src/linux makes baby Jesus kill kittens
@ 2004-07-24 0:42 99% ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2004-07-24 0:42 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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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