From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: bcc dpmi ver1.2.0 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:45:31 +0400 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40CD81CB.1030600@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hello. R.L. Horn wrote: > The kernel. are kernel headers, not part of glibc, but the > distributors appear to have muddied the waters considerably. No, this is not the decision of distributors any more. > It sounds as though the distributors are maintaining multiple, possibly > disparate, copies of the kernel headers. Whether this is to ease > installations without kernel sources or because 2.6 is so thoroughly > buggered up I don't know Linux-related FAQs contains the precise explanation for this: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/usr-src-linux-symlink.html > If nothing else, it occults kernel header problems, which might explain > in part why they've been so long getting fixed. AFAIK everything is fixed. There was the problem with debian distro, but not any more I think. You erased and symlinked /usr/include/linux on your own. Why do you expect the programs to still compile or work correctly? I think the above URL explains why you should not.