From: JHUANG@kentvm.kent.edu Subject: Re: Missing Header Files in SLS 0.99 Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:35:57 GMT
In article <1h5lf3INNkbb@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
>
>JHUANG@kentvm.kent.edu writes:
>
>> Hello All. I am not sure that this has been encountered before.
>>
>> I downloaded SLS 0.99 from sunsite and had it installed on my 486
>>very smoothly.
>>
>> Everything ran well, until I tried to compile a small C program.
>>It then complained about <linux/types.h>, <linux/stat.h>, etc. being
>>not found. I then went to "/usr/include/linux" and found out that only
>>"const.h" was there.
>>
>> Simple question: what should I do about this situation?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>--
>>Jing Huang
>>Dept. of Phys.
>>Kent State Univ. e-mail: jhuang@mcs.kent.edu
>
>You need to download the kernel sources and install them also.
>You can get the current version plus about 3 version back from tsx-11.mit.edu
>in the
>
>/pub/linux/sources/system directory.
>
>Install these in /usr/src/linux and then issue the following two commands as
>root:
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>ln -s -f /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm
>ln -s -f /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
>
>James
>
Thanks to all of you who responded to my plea for help.
The problem is obvious now. SLS does not include the kernel source
nor the header files needed. So hopefully those new comers can realize
this fact.
The solution is also obvious, James gave the most clear answer above.
Thank you again, folks.