Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:01:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:01:38 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:64004 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:01:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Linus's include file strategy redux To: miquels@traveler.cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:33:39 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <91bnoc$vij$2@enterprise.cistron.net> from "Miquel van Smoorenburg" at Dec 15, 2000 12:14:04 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >Which works because in a normal compile environment they have /usr/include > >in their include path and /usr/include/linux points to the directory > >under /usr/src/linux/include. > > No, that a redhat-ism. Umm, its a most people except Debianism. People relied on it despite it being wrong. RH7 ships with a matching library set of headers. I got to close a lot of bug reports explaining to people that the new setup was in fact right 8( - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/