Re: PROBLEM: kernel 2.3.99-pre5 does not compile without system-wide kernel headers

From: Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 15:02:24 EST


On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:32:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> FWIW, the coming-very-soon Linux-Mandrake 7.1 beta will include a system
> service "kheader", which is run at boot time to make sure that the
> kernel source/include symlinks are correct for the kernel version
> currently running.

I hope you realize that this is very undesirable [in case these symlinks are
the ones providing the <linux/foo.h> includes].

I have been told that Debian has done this right for a long time already.
Is Mandrake now slowly going to reinvent the wheel, finally to adopt
the Debian solution?
Or do I misunderstand you?

Andries

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