my kernel headers are hosed!

[Net Llama!]

On 12/21/03 10:20, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> My current glibc(-2.3.2) was built under kernel 2.4.22, so I thought 
>> that I could fix this mess with the following:
>> cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.22
>> make mrproper
>> make include/linux/version.h
>> make symlinks
>> cp -HR include/asm /usr/include
>> cp -R include/asm-generic /usr/include
>> cp -R include/linux /usr/include
>> touch /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h
>>
>> Unfortunately, that hasn't helped at all.  Trying to buld anything 
>> that relies on the kernel headers is bombing out with an assortment of 
>> bad errors like:
>>
>> In file included from /usr/include/sys/wait.h:30,
>>                  from xsystem.c:21:
>> /usr/include/signal.h:27: error: conflicting types for `sigset_t'
>> /usr/include/sys/select.h:38: error: previous declaration of `sigset_t'
>> xsystem.c: In function `xsystem':
>> xsystem.c:45: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> xsystem.c:45: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> xsystem.c:45: error: for each function it appears in.)
>> make[1]: *** [xsystem.o] Error 1
>>
>>
>> Surely there must be a way to fix this mess.  Anyone?
> 
> 
> I had a similar issue after I had reinstalled a fresh linux-2.4.23 into 
>  /usr/src, nixing the one that was there before.
> 
> Nothing wanted to compile 'cause of lacking headers. I restored them by 
> a simple 'make xconfig' (perhaps I did a 'make dep' after that, don't 
> remember, but no need do a complete recompile ).

That's a different problem, i think.  And if that's happening, it might 
mean that you too are symlinking stuff from /usr/include into 
/usr/src/linux.


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