Re: 2.2.10 compilation problem

David Luyer (luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:18:45 +0800


> I think I figured out the problem (at least mine...) I am using an old
> RedHat 4.2 here and I had a link in /usr/include/scsi pointing to
> /usr/src/linux/include/scsi. So I installed the kernel source to
> /usr/src/linux and _after_ that I upgrated to glibc-2.1.1 using redhat's
> 6.0 version and glibc-devel-2.1.1-6 installs a certain files into
> /usr/include/scsi namely scsi.h and sg.h ;-)
> So kernel files are overwritten by this.

Then move to a distribution with proper install scripts and testing.

The pre-install script from Debian's libc6-dev package:

=== begin script ===
#!/bin/sh

set -e

# Remove old symlinks, if they exist
if [ -L /usr/include/asm ] ; then rm -f /usr/include/asm ; fi
if [ -L /usr/include/linux ] ; then rm -f /usr/include/linux ; fi
if [ -L /usr/include/scsi ] ; then rm -f /usr/include/scsi ; fi
=== end script ===

There's really no excuse for being so sloppy with a distribution as to not
test that upgrades work irrespective of the version you're coming from.

I guess you should report a bug against the RedHat 6.0 glibc-devel package.

David.

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