Re: Build errors and fixes

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:23:29AM +0100, Clifford Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:43:14PM +0100, Andreas V. Meier wrote:
> > Using it for 2.4 only shouldn't be that big problem, just check for
> > linux24-source availability and use the /usr/src/linux-2.4.*-rock/ dir.
> 
> Oh god! please not!
> 
> If it is disabled for systems with no linux24, this is a decision which has
> to be made at configure time - not when the package is built already.
> 
> I'd suggest that we always build a linux24-header and a linux26-header
> package. They install theyr headers in /usr/include/linux24 and
> /usr/include/linux26 respectively. The package with the "default headers"
> is then symlinked to /usr/include.
This is unlikely to work for most packages.  Usually, one includes
kernel headers using '#include <linux/foo.h>' ... so what you'd want
would be something like:
/usr/include/linux26/linux and /usr/include/linux24/linux.

If that's what you meant, please pardon my pedantic tendencies.



> 
> For every package which requires linux24 or linux26 headers we simply pass
> a -I$root/usr/include/linux24 (or -I$root/usr/include/linux26) using the
> CC_WRAPPER.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> yours,
>  - clifford
> 
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