On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Jose Manuel Cerqueira Esteves wrote: > I downloaded the evaluation version of OSS for the kernel 2.0.33, in order > to try it on a Toshiba 220CS, but `oss-install' failed, giving the output > reproduced below (I also append the resulting contents of soundon.log). > Since I compiled the 2.0.33 kernel with the proper options for use with > OSS, I tried to find the cause for this problem. The problem (or one of > them) seems to be in the check_shields.sh script. This reads > /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h expecting to find there information about > the kernel actually installed. However, the files in /usr/include/linux/ > are provided by a libc5 package (libc5-dev). This is the policy followed > at least by the Debian distribution (apparently with very good reasons). > Under Debian, in order to use information strongly dependent on the actual > kernel installed, one should therefore analyze files under > /usr/src/linux/include/linux. Adding support for this to OSS would > therefore be important at least for Debian users. (Obviously, from the > point of view of package management, it would also be most interesting to > have the possibility to obtain the commercial OSS available as a Debian > package).
But, of course, the kernel README states: - make sure your /usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi directories are just symlinks to the kernel sources: cd /usr/include rm -rf asm linux scsi ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi It often doesn't really matter, but I recently had to do this in order to compile some utilities which were dependent on the symlinks (although I could have rewritten the Makefile to eliminate the check, although I don't know what the result would be). It's probably a good idea when using the bleeding-edge kernels, as well. I suppose there are good points in favor of either approach, but IMHO there should be consistency between the various flavors of Linux in matters like this. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .