The issue is distros that link /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include.
/usr/include/linux is for the installed glibc, /usr/src/linux/include for the
compilation of linux. some distros do the symlink, though (despite warnings
from Linux et al that they reserve the right to change /usr/src/linux/include
whenever they want in development), and so putting a new version of linux in
/usr/src/linux breaks those peoples systems, because glibc no longer has
headers matching what was compiled.
jeff
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Thought for today: gnubie /noo'bee/ n.
Written-only variant of newbie in
common use on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone who
is new to the Linux/open source/free software world.
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 wrote:
> > First, go into your /usr/src/linux source tree ...
>
> It seems worth reiterating that the 2.4 kernel has some fairly stern
> warnings against compiling your kernel in /usr/src/linux. Apparently, C
> library development header files often live there, and those header files
> should only change if your C library does. So, compile the kernel in
> <someplace else>, and leave /usr/src/linux for your distro/C library.
>
> In many ways, the system C library is more important than the system kernel
> is.
>
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