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From: wingel@t1.ctrl-c.liu.se
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Subject: Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs
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In article <3986213D.FBACB4D1@transmeta.com> you hpg@transmeta.com writes:
>wingel@t1.ctrl-c.liu.se wrote:
>> And IMHO to be able to do this, one should have to provide an explicit
>> -I/usr/src/my-kernel/linux/include, it should not be the default.
>
>I disagree.  It makes life far too painful for the end user, for really no gain.

The idea was to make a point, that #include <linux/xxx.h> really is
a kernel/kernel aware application thing only.  It ought to reduce the
number of people who try to include kernel only stuff without knowing
that it is a nono most of the time.

It isn't all that hard to add the following lines to the Makefiles 
for an application that needs the kernel includes:

KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux
CFLAGS+=$(KERNELDIR)/include

And then standardise on /usr/src/linux as the directory where the kernel 
includes for the current kernel reside on a distribution.  Those who 
compile multiple kernels on the same system should be savvy enough to
do "KERNELDIR=/usr/src/my-kernel/linux make" or modify the Makefile.

   /Christer


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