When I installed Arch, I chose to build my kernel from source. Now, attempting to rebuild all the binaries originally installed on my machine using makepkg -bci, I encounter a problem with glibc. It'll get only so far into the build and the wheels will come off when it looks for kernel headers in /usr/src/linux/include. I have no /usr/src/linux/include, probably because I built my kernel at the time of installation. What I have is /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/include.

Would there be any harm in creating a /usr/src/linux/include and symlinking it to the /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/include directory. Would this approach likely solve my problem? I thought it best to ask before trying it and fouling something up.

jlowell

Yea, the simplest route is to symlink /usr/src/linux to your real kernel tree and start the glibc build again. This is usually required for packages that are tightly coupled with the kernel, such as glibc, alsa, pcmcia-cs, etc.