On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:32:10 -0400,
Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> Linus and other kernel maintainers fought a
>> long and hard battle to stop distributions making symlinks from
>> /usr/include to /usr/src/linux, or to any other active kernel.
>
>Ideally this should be the case. Why do the instructions for glibc
>installation
>tell you to make those links after moving the old glibc out from under
>you and
>before you install the new one?
The glibc maintainer and Linus disagree on this point. Most kernel
developers agree with Linus and the distributions are following the
no-symlink model. For old versions of glibc the symlinks were the
recommended method, it may just be that glibc INSTALL is out of date.
After all, it talks about kernel 2.2.1.
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