[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: 0_90 README,1.9,1.10

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 03:43:33 +0200
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> I compiled MPlayer today at the LUG on my notebook for the first time in
> months and stumbled over /usr/include/linux/errno.h and limits.h.  These
> files belong to the glibc development package (at least on Debian and SuSE).
> 
> My compile failed because I had moved /usr/include/linux to linux.old and
> added a symlink to the includes from my kernel sources.  This also works and
> it is not so uncommon IMHO.

Just a little clarification, originaly (ie years ago) /usr/include/linux
was actualy a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux. But when distros
started to leave out the part with kernel compilation (as it's too scary
for an avarage newby) and dropped the kernel sources they still needed
the headers to be able to compile certain programs. So they copied
the header files to /usr/inculde/linux instead of including the
whole linux source.
And yes, some old and grey haired linuxer still have the old symlink.


			Attila Kinali

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