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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:20:57 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:12:14AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Why? Anyone who wants to use the headers provided by the headers
>> package must sent an env var, anyway, so why not just set the var
>> to /usr/sr/linux-header-foo? What is the benefit of this symlink?
> For consistency's sake, and so that users can write scripts building
> modules, which will not change if we modify the
> /usr/src/linux-header-foo path down the road.
Err, this does not make sense. What do you put into the
script? Obviously, you can't put /lib/modules/$uname -r)/build there,
since that shall not work.
Why can't the script have:
,----
| KVERS=<VERSION_I_AM_TRYING_TO_BUILD_FOR>
| if [ -e "/lib/modules/$KVERS/build" ]; then
| export KSRC="/lib/modules/$KVERS/build"
| elif [ -d "/usr/src/linux-headers-$KVERS" ]; then
| export KSRC="/usr/src/linux-headers-$KVERS"
| fi
`----
manoj
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