Re: /usr/include/linux and stuff

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 will [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk wrote:

> What exactly is in here? On RedHat the glibc package installs it. This
> seems pretty damn wrong (the contents depend on the kernel revision in use
> at the time). Should I just symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux?

No, don't do that. To be honest, it (/usr/include/linux) shouldn't be
there full stop, although the glibc guys insist on installing it every
time, most annoying. It's rank naughtiness. 

What's in there? Full kernel headers. Screws package management. What? You
have different kernel sources to that which you're running? Tough. 

Go into any include tree and do a 'cat *.h | grep __KERNEL__'. All that
crap is there because of libc5, and glibc doesn't seem to have changed
its errant ways...

> Oh and BTW, does anyone know why my CVS build of X doesn't support
> locales? Is there any reason why Xlib might have screwed up like that?

Not really, I'm afraid.. what do you mean by CVS? Your own personal local
CVS, or a 'net one?

Cheers,

Alex.


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