Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Stuart Stegall <stuart@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o, stuart@g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-server] /usr/src/linux
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:00:31
Message-Id: 003701c4bd42$04df70e0$6400a8c0@hellboy1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] /usr/src/linux by Stuart Herbert
1 Actually there could be a few reasons to do this still. I have some
2 really cool telephony software, but it was ported from QNX6 and the port
3 was done using the same paradigms as the QNX version. So the telephony
4 servers all interact with the kernel modules very tightly, leading to
5 problems when the linux and asm includes are not current with the
6 kernel.
7
8 > -----Original Message-----
9 > From: Stuart Herbert [mailto:stuart@g.o]
10 > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:50 PM
11 > To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
12 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] /usr/src/linux
13 >
14 >
15 > On Wednesday 27 October 2004 22:19, Chris Ripp wrote:
16 > > > The linux-headers package is installed into the
17 > /usr/src/linux tree.
18 > >
19 > > Are you sure about that? My linux26-headers are installed in
20 > > /usr/include/linux, as they should be. I believe you *can* symlink
21 > > that back to /usr/src/linux/include/linux (and asm of
22 > course) but most
23 > > distros I've ever seen do it the first way.
24 >
25 > /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm are symlinks into
26 > /usr/src/linux on my
27 > box.
28 >
29 > Time for a change, me thinks ;-)
30 >
31 > Best regards,
32 > Stu
33 > --
34 > Stuart Herbert
35 > stuart@g.o
36 > Gentoo Developer
37 > http://www.gentoo.org/
38 >
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