linux/config.h header file missing?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:21 -0400, Garrett Mitchener wrote:
> I've tried building several kernel-related programs on FC6 test3, like
> an older version of the mptscsi driver and the ATI proprietary driver
> for FireGL graphics cards and such.  I keep running into this error
> that they want to #include <linux/config.h> and there is no such file
> in any of the kernel versions.  Is this a packaging mistake where this
> file has somehow been left out of an RPM?  Or has something happened
> recently in kernel development such that the kernel no longer comes
> with this file?

> I've been able to get many of these things to compile by creating an
> empty file, as in,

> touch /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2747.fc6-x86_64/include/linux/config.h

> but I'm a little uneasy about this hack.

	It's a hack and I've used it with VMware and it just points up the fact
that <linux/config.h> is no longer necessary.  An empty file serves the
purpose just fine.  The owners of the package you are trying to build
should remove the "#include <linux/config.h>" from their sources
entirely.  Which you can do as well, if you prefer.  It doesn't do
anything, any longer, but it doesn't harm anything.  It's just vestigial
cruft now.

> -- Garrett Mitchener

	Mike
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