Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:06:16 +0800 | Subject | Re: /usr/include/linux/errno.h:1:23: fatal error: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory | From | Jeff Chua <> |
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On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 09:39:01AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: >> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 09:23:38AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: >> >> How should the symbolic links be setup to compile the latest kernel? >> >> >> >> >> >> Currently I had these links and kernels compiled fine until 2 days ago. >> >> >> >> asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/uapi/asm-generic/ >> >> asm-generic -> /usr/src/linux/include/uapi/asm-generic >> >> linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/uapi/linux >> > >> > What symlinks? /usr/include/* should not contain any symlinks into >> > the kernel source. At all. >> >> Al, >> >> Oh, perhaps I'm having the right setup. Where should I get the kernel >> headers. > > From your libc. Which ought to have its own copies, normally coming from > make headers_install in kernel source. And yes, it had been that way > for many years by now. Userland should *not* blindly grab the kernel > headers. > > Incidentally, your 'asm' is obviously bogus - the headers that should end > up there ought to come from arch/<whatever>/include/uapi/asm (and _not_ > by pointing a symlink to it); yours points to the place where asm-generic > ones ought to have been copied from.
Al,
Thanks for the pointers. Will try as what you suggested:)
Merry Christmas.
Jeff
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