Re: Red Hat 6.1 version.h modifications
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:43:10 +0200
According to Ben Collins:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:51:40AM -0400, kernel@kvack.org wrote:
> > Bzzzt. Unless Debian has changed something recently, their shipped kernel
> > source doesn't include the config and version information require to
> > seamlessly build modules out of the box.
>
> Debian's glibc includes the kernel headers it was built with directly in
> /usr/include/{linux,asm,scsi}. Further more the config is installed as
> /boot/config-2.2.x. Note, this is with slink and potato. And yes the
> source.deb does include the config used for the stock kernels. Each arch -
> i386, sparc, alpha, ... - has a seperate patch package that installs over
> the pristine source so you can get the config and diff used to compile
> that kernel.
Yes, furthermore there is a kernel-headers package for each kernel
that ships with Debian which _does_ include config.h and version.h
But this is a kernel list, and this discussion has no place here.
What is relevant though is that you will note that Linus took out
the part about linking /usr/include/{linux,asm} to
/usr/src/linux/include from the linux/README file in 2.2. That was
most certainly not taken out without reason.
Mike.
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