Re: [PLUG] Kernel compile error message

[LeRoy Cressy <ldc@netaxs.com>]

/usr/include/ primarily is found in the package libc6-dev.  This package
is only required for developing applications.  For the most part the
distributions use an old and very stable kernel for the items in
/usr/include so that the apps that you build will have a backwards
compatability.  If you have sym links in /usr/include and you are using
the latest kernel like 2.4.3 you might not be able to run your apps on a
system that is still running 2.0.36 kernel.

Also, I have several directory trees for various kernel versions like
both 2.4 and 2.2 in /usr/local/src/linux/v2.*/  

It seems to me that the problem seems to be that there is a symlink in
the kernel source that from VA Linux that is pointing to nothing in
/usr/include.  Why not get a copy of the kernel source from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org Only a couple of times have I ever had problems
with a kernel from kernel.org.  But some of the distributions have alter
the kernel source a little and have caused problems.


Sergey Ostrovsky wrote:
> 
> Sergey Ostrovsky wrote:
> 
> > Your /usr/include directory should have symlinks to ../linux/include/linux and
> > ../linux/include/asm.
> 
> Well, ../src/linux/include/linux & ../src/linux/include/asm.
> 
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