On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 12:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > (ok, it's my turn to ask dumb questions again.) > > following up on a previous post of mine, i'm still trying > to clarify the issues related to building and running a new > kernel, and header files. > > historically, of course, the kernsl source has always been > dumped under /usr/src/linux-2.x.yy or something to that effect. correct, but not for building modules against > and, from memory, it was always recommended to create the symlink > /usr/src/linux to point at the source directory for the currently > running kernel. incorrect > > why was this? IIRC, it's because other builds needed access > to the kernel header files for the currently-running kernel so > they could be created compatible, is that about right? incorrect; ANYTHING that requires the headers from the currently running kernel needs to use the /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include directory.
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