Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:53:20 +0200 (CEST) | | From | swoop <> | | Subject | Re: README no longer mentions symlinks for includes |
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use make-kpkg from kernel_package-X.X.deb to build the kernel under Debian. Greatly simplifies all the hassle and also builds kernels *.debs for you.
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, BROWN Nick wrote:
> I notice that the kernel source README (in 2.2.2, anyway) no longer includes > the warning that was in 2.0.36, that /usr/include/{asm|linux|scsi} should be > symlinks to the kernel source tree. This crept up and got me earlier today > as I was compiling a 2.2.x kernel on a Debian 2.0.36-based system - Debian > appears to install the /usr/include/asm files in place, since the kernel > sources aren't there by default. > > Maybe the 2.2 kernel compilation is meant to automagically work around this, > but on my system it seemed like I was compiling against lots of 2.0.36 > include files. What really had me going was that for about the first time > in my life I'd actually read the README (of 2.2.2) ! > > It could be something else causing the problem, but when I zapped the three > offending directories and replaced them with symlinks, everything worked at > once. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > |\ | o _ |/ Life's like a jigsaw > | \| | |_ |\ You get the straight bits > But there's something missing in the middle > > Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr) > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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