Re: kernel 1.2.13 must be in /usr/src/linux ?

Jochen Toppe (jtoppe@ro.com)
Tue, 29 Aug 1995 22:53:00 -0500

> On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Jochen Toppe wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Aug 1995, Cristian Gafton wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > If I want to put a kernel in some other place than /usr/src/linux,
> > > it will fail at make dep because the drivers/block/aztcd.c file has a
> > > hard-coded include file in it, some place around line 140:
> > >
> > >
> > Have you ever heard of symbolic links?
> > Put the kernel into some other directory and then create a link
> > from /usr/src/linux to that.
>
> NO NO NO NO NO!!!! YES, you can sym link the kernel, but it MUST NOT have
> hardcoded file refrences in it. ACK! What about someone installing
> in /usr/LOCAL/src?? yes, /usr/src/linux is the most common place for

This is just for clarification, since everyone seems to go crazy about
my mail.. I know that hardcoded references are YUCK, the person who
posted just seemed so desperate and not knowing what to do..
At least the email did sound like it........so I thought I'd give
them the EASY solution to the problem instead of him having to wait
for Linus putting out a new kernel.. Maybe the article was just
formulated a little amiguously. Afterall, this mailing list
is also intended to provide a little help with problems, right?
*pouts*
Later,

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