my kernel headers are hosed!

[Net Llama!]

On 12/21/03 11:49, Collins wrote:
> On Sunday 21 December 2003 09:56, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>Seems that I missed the memo long ago that ordered everyone to stop
>>symlinking /usr/include/asm & /usr/include/linux into /usr/src/linux.
>>So, i've continued to do that and now have discovered that its a bad
>>thing because /usr/include/asm & /usr/include/linux should contain the
>>headers used to build my current glibc, rather than the current kernel.
>>
> 
> 
> [ tale of woe snipped ]
> 
> Sorry I can't be of much help here.  I can only note that I must have missed 
> the memo to do this in the first place!  I seem to have learned in linux 101 
> days that symlinking the linux headers to anything other than the version 
> that built glibc was a bad idea (tm).

Seems that Linus issued this edict back in the late 2.2.x days.

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