> I have located a potential problem spot in 2.2.0pre9: My Linux
> distribution (SuSE 6.0, well it's not mine, but the one I use) has a
> symbolic link from /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux.
>
> In these times when I have several kernel trees around, I realized
> that I successfully built a 2.2.0pre9 kernel with the include tree
> from 2.2.0pre7. Only after I had removed the older tree I realized
> that my symbolic links point to nil.
That's no problem because the kernels build doesn't use the headers in
`/usr/include/linux'. And it doesn't even affect the compilation of other
programs because the critical stuff is hidden behind `#ifdef __KERNEL__'
and most programs won't use these anyway.
Sometimes I even use 2.0.33 header files to compile some old and bad coded
software for 2.1.x.
Bye,
Mark
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