On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Matthew Vanecek wrote:
> Adam Sampson wrote:
> > Also, what's the official stance on what headers should be in
> > /usr/include/linux? The glibc 2.1.3 documentation says that
> > /usr/include/linux and usr/include/asm should be symlinks into the source
> > tree, but this hasn't been true for a long time now. Where should we get
> > the "new" headers from?
> >
>
> How long has it not been true? I've never heard anything like that.
> I'm running test1, with glibc-2.1.3, and mine are links:
Mine's never been symlinked. The rationale behind it (from memory; and I
believe Linus ranted about this once) is that userspace programs do not
want to link directly to the kernel's header files, because exported
kernel interfaces might be different between the C library and the kernel,
and might cause subtle breakage.
Try running a "legacy" system with glibc 2.0.7 compiled against 2.0.34,
then run 'foo' which you compiled against 2.4.0's headers. =)
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Apr 21 00:15 /usr/include/asm
> -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Apr 21 00:15
> /usr/include/linux -> ../src/linux/include/linux/
>
>
> If yours aren't links, then you've got something misconfigured.
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