If you do this with the Debian distribution you're toast.
The Debian libc-dev packages includes /usr/include/{linux,asm,scsi}
already. If you remove those and replace it by links you have
broken both the packaging system and your development environment.
If you need to compile something with the _kernel_ headers, just
include -I/usr/src/linux/include. But no sane program should
ever need to include <linux/....>
>Note: The Linux source tree can be installed before these links are put
> in. However, these links must be there if one is installing a
> precompiled binary libc6 library since some of the asm, linux and
> scsi include files are part of the libc distribution.
Ofcourse they are. And for a reason. You are not supposed to replace
or overwrite them. There is a _reason_ these instructions got removed
from the kernel README.
> The linux source tree should be installed after the libc6 installation
> due to some of the include files being overwritten with possible
> older versions in the libc6. I don't think this should break the
> libc6 distribution but the linux kernel may be.
You're breaking everything in sight here. Bad, bad advice.
Mike.
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