bringing back 'make symlinks'?

[Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>]

In the 2.4 kernel, 'make symlinks' created the symlinks needed
to use the kernel tree's headers for building a gcc/glibc toolchain.

In the 2.6 kernel, you can do the same thing with 'include include/asm'.
Unless you're trying to build arm or cris, or maybe others, in which case you also need
'include/asm-$(ARCH)/.arch'.

That's fine, but it means that a script (like crosstool) or a book (like LFS)
that's trying to build a gcc/glibc toolchain for both 2.4 and 2.6 ends up
with a section like

case "$KERNEL_VERSION.$KERNEL_PATCHLEVEL.x" in
2.2.x|2.4.x) make ARCH=$ARCH symlinks    include/linux/version.h
              ;;
2.6.x)       make ARCH=$ARCH include/asm include/linux/version.h
              case $ARCH in
              arm*|cris*) make ARCH=$ARCH include/asm-$ARCH/.arch
                          ;;
              esac
              ;;
*)           abort "Unsupported kernel version $KERNEL_VERSION.$KERNEL_PATCHLEVEL"
esac

which is a bit ugly.  It'd be nice if 'make symlinks' did the neccesary
stuff in 2.6, too.  Think a patch to do that would be accepted?
- Dan

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