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- From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: 0.99.2 compile problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.101014.10202@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Keywords: 0.99.2 compile problem
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- Organization: Washington State University!
- References: <1993Jan2.210327.8869@tc.cornell.edu> <C0Fw86.E2t@ppcger.ppc.sub.org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 10:10:14 GMT
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- In article <C0Fw86.E2t@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf) writes:
- >torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
- >>I've now seen two compilation problem reports, and they both looked like
- >>being due to bad include-file setups, probably due to a problem with the
- >>SLS files.
- >
- >>IMPORTANT! To get any linux kernel to compile, your /usr/include/linux
- >>and /usr/include/asm directories should be symlinks to the linux
- >>include-dirs. If they aren't, correct the problem with:
- >
- >> # rm -rf /usr/include/linux
- >> # rm -rf /usr/include/asm
- >> # ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
- >> # ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm
- >
- >This problem originates in the new include-files as packaged in inc-4.2.TZ.
- >There are these two links set up to point to
- >
- >/net/irl/users/hlu/local/{asm|linux}
- >
- >or some such. Maybe the maintainor of this package could set up these links
- >(and the Makefiles etc/pp) to be correct for the target-machines before
- >posting them? This coud save some trouble for some people and some typing
- >for other people who are kind enough to answer questions.
- >
-
- In release.libc-4.2, there is a warning about that. Maybe it is not
- clear enough.
-
- If you have /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux set up right before
- you install inc-4.2.TZ,
-
- tar xvvofz inc-4.2.TZ
-
- should not touch their symbolic links, at least this is the case for
- GNU tar I am using.
-
- H.J.
-