Where is install_kernel_headers? (+ git web interface question)

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Bernhard
Reutner-Fischer<rep.dot.nop at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Yes. I want to do that. I set up KERNEL_HEADERS so that uclibc
>>build machinery should know where it is. The proof is that
>>"make" succeeds.
>>
>>So uclibc does not require kernel headers to be installed
>>into any particular directory, it is working with
>>kernel headers installed in any directory, as long as it is
>>specified by KERNEL_HEADERS.
>>
>>Yet, "make check" does not work. It's a bug.
>
> The proper thing to do here is to setup your toolchain to include
> that extra include-dir:
> For properly setup sysroot-enabled toolchains the kernel-headers
> are already installed in the sysroot. Likewise toolchains configured
> not to use sysroot (you shouldn't do this anyway nowadays) have to
> specify that directory as include-dir in their c(pp) flags.
>>
>>Feel free to fix the bug in any way you feel comfortable with.
>
> In my POV this is a configuration issue and not libc's business.

Then why do we have KERNEL_HEADERS?
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