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symlinks into kernel source tree


From: Mike Castle
Subject: symlinks into kernel source tree
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:43:30 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.18i

Having just participated in a rant on the linux-newbies list, I've noticed
there is still a bit of discontinuity between what the glibc documenation
states and what conventional linux-kernel wisdom is with respect to
/usr/include/{asm,linux} being symlinks into the kernel directory
structure.

Using the following as a starting point:

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.3/0587.html

That thread points out a problem that resulted from having a symlink going
from /usr/include/asm to /usr/src/linux/include/asm.

Linus' emphatic recommendation is that /usr/include/{asm,linux} should
not be symlinks, but rather, copies of the kernel that glibc was built
against.  Apparently he's been asking this for quite a while, and debian
has been doing it like this for quite a while.  (Though I didn't find
anything obvious in the glibc archives.)

Both the FAQ and info files for at least glibc-2.2.3 both recommend setting
up a symlink.

Would the glibc folks be accepting of patches that updated that
documenation?

Also, would patches that (following the lead of the net and scsi stuff),
check that asm,linux are symlinks, and bail during configuration and during
the install process, replace asm,linux with the contents of the kernel
directories that glibc was compiled against?

mrc
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