Ken,

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Ken Teh wrote:

> Hi Connie,
>
> It's always been that way.  As far back as RedHat 7.  Beyond that, I don't
> know because I used to use Slackware.  If you look at the
> glibc-kernheaders version number, you'll see they don't even match the
> initial kernel that comes with that distribution.  Not your fault.
> RedHat's been doing this since I started using RedHat many moons ago.

I guess I have updated kernels many times and then rebuilt them and not
had to make these links.

>
>
> Ken
>
> PS. Btw, when is RedHat Enterprise going to the 2.6 kernel?  I had to put
> Fedora Core 2 on a new laptop.  Much to my dislike.  But I needed some new
> drivers.

RedHat just announced beta 1 of Enterprise 4 yesterday.  It has a 2.6
kernel.

-Connie Sieh
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, csieh wrote:
>
> > Ken,
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Ken Teh wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Alan,
> > >
> > > I know this problem.  I fix it manually all the time.  This is what you
> > > do:
> >
> > So why do you have to do this?  What broke it?
> >
> > -Connie Sieh
> > >
> > > If you do
> > >
> > > rpm -qf /usr/include/asm
> > > rpm -qf /usr/include/linux
> > >
> > > you will see that they belong to the rpm glibc-kernheaders.  I always do
> > > the following:
> > >
> > > cd /usr/include
> > > mv asm asm.glibc-kernheaders
> > > ln -sf /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/asm asm
> > > mv linux linux.gblic-kernheaders
> > > ln -sf /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux linux
> > >
> > > Then,
> > >
> > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4/include
> > > ln -sf asm-i386 asm
> > >
> > > These last 2 steps are necessary if the asm link is not there.
> > > /usr/src/linux-2.4 is itself a link.  Be sure it is pointing to the correct
> > > kernel tree.
> > >
> > > There are actually a few more /usr/include directories that correspond to
> > > subdirectories in /usr/src/linux-2.4/include.  If you need to use the kernel
> > > tree's headers instead of /usr/include, then you need to mv and ln them as
> > > well.  I would be very careful with the net/ subdirectory.  I suspect the
> > > one in /usr/include is used in applications development, so it should not be
> > > mv'ed.
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, csieh wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > What do you mean by kernel development rpms.
> > > >
> > > > I mean that when I did the original 301 install, I went to the custom
> > > > selection and I checked the box for the kernel development group.
> > > > This was chiefly so that I could build kernel-modules (I wasn't really
> > > > planning on building custom kernels, but you never know...)
> > > >
> > > > > I assume you mean kernel-source .  Did you have kernel-source
> > > > > installed before and do you have it installed now.
> > > >
> > > > That's right.  (I've responded to Troy now, and I'll report on
> > > > anything useful that comes up).
> > > >
> > > > many thanks.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>