From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Building git on Fedora Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:39:17 +1000 Message-ID: <1113781158.11910.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <4262F07D.4050007@adelphia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 18 01:36:06 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNJIo-0006Q8-U4 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:35:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261560AbVDQXjh (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:39:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261561AbVDQXjh (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:39:37 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:55752 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261560AbVDQXjd (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:39:33 -0400 Received: from [150.203.247.9] (helo=[172.24.3.18]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.43 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DNJMQ-0003L7-WB; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:39:32 +0100 To: jeff millar In-Reply-To: <4262F07D.4050007@adelphia.net> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 (2.2.1.1-2) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 19:25 -0400, jeff millar wrote: > ln -sf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux /usr/local/include/linux > > This fix creates a symlink, on each boot up, in the local include > directory that points to the kernel header files. If there's a better > way to do this, I'm all ears. What's wrong with the contents of the glibc-kernheaders package? Can you file specific bugs if you're having problems? In the long run, the answer is to convince Linus that we _really_ need the kernel to have a set of header files defining the ABI which are fit for public consumption, rather than having a horrid mix of private and exportable bits throughout the contents of the include/ directory. In the meantime, some poor mug has to clean the crap up and try to make something suitable to live in /usr/include/linux -- and unfortunately at the moment for Fedora that someone is me :) Unless git is doing something with kernel-private headers that it shouldn't, this probably wants to be discussed elsewhere -- most likely in Bugzilla. -- dwmw2