Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:15:40 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] asm*/resource.h fix for glibc |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > If the glibc people cannot figure out how "cp" works, maybe somebody > should tell them. Symlinks are a maintenance nightmare, and means that not > only does the user-space compilation environment suddenly depend on which > version of the kernel sources you have installed (as opposed to which one > you're _running_), but they also mean that suddenly you have to install > the kernel sources to compile anything (or split up the kernel sources > into "headers" and "the rest"). Which means that package management is > screwed up etc etc.
fwiw, Red Hat 6.0 glibc-devel depends on kernel-headers. That means to compile things with Glibc you have to have a set of kernel headers installed.
Which is always annoying because I /never/ want the same kernel headers as the package manager would like there.
Because I develop programs (not modules) that use kernel headers (mainly ioctls), that are not present in older kernels or in Glibc itself.
> I refuse to add more of the __KERNEL__ stupidity. The existing stuff is > there for backwards compatibility, but the thing stops here.
Things would indeed be a lot simpler without __KERNEL__ at all.
-- Jamie
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