Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-headers in baselayout

[Ingo Krabbe]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:05:18AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:41:48AM +0100, Ingo Krabbe wrote:
> > I have a small problem with linux headers as a dependency in
> > baselayout.  Hmm, I don't know exactly why I encounter it at all:
> >
> > Linux headers install /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm.
> >
> > A normal developer configuration would be to link
> > /usr/src/linux/include/linux -> /usr/include/linux and
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm -> /usr/include/asm
>
> Linus Torvalds has said repeatedly that these should match the glibc
> headers, NOT your current kernel.  He justified himself, and others have
> provided the same and other good reasons not to have those be symlinks.
>
> For some reason, people refuse to listen.
>
> --
> Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@×××.org>             A mighty Oak is the result of
>   ^ a nut                                       a nut that held its ground
>
> Try intercal.
> You will never hate another programming language again.
>         -- Richard Braakman
>

Hmm, yes thats understood, no problem to use it this way.  I'm just a
bit confused about "/usr/include/autoconf.h", which contains different
variables, then the running kernel.  This again is a problem for the
alsa-driver module which complains about missing version information in
modules, that I actually switched off.

I come through that this is a bug of alsa-driver.  Wouldn't it be
usefull to remove autoconf.h at all for secrutity reasons since packages
that rely on the current kernel configuration should be compiled against
/usr/src/linux/include/linux and not against /usr/include/linux ?

BYE INGO

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