Re: bcc dpmi ver1.2.0

Patrick J. Volkerding
2004-06-15T03:31:48Z

> > intent). It is fortunate that the bad old days of /usr/include/linux ->
> > /usr/src/linux/include are mostly gone, but some systems still do that
> > anyway (Slackware?).

It's been years since Slackware has done that.

> FWIW - to be precise, Slackware isn't doing what's illustrated above,
> exactly. No symlink at all. Rather, /usr/include/linux, if populated
> at all, comes only from the kernel-headers package, and is a complete
> copy of the kernel headers that are packaged with the kernel source
> in that particular distribution.
>
> I suspect the rationale for this would go along the lines of:

The rationale is that the kernel headers in /usr/include should be closely
matched to the ones that glibc was compiled against or you can run into
trouble. Reference from Linus:

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

Take care,

Pat