re: Files missing in /usr/include?

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> I'm working on porting the OpenAFS client over to NetBSD 5.0.2. In
> trying to compile the LKM for it, the files cpu.h and intr.h in
> /usr/include/x86/ are included. These headers include additional
> headers. The problem, however, is that a couple of the headers they
> try to include are not in /usr/include/x86. For example:
> 
> /usr/include/x86/cpu.h includes /x86/via_padlock.h
> /usr/include/x86/intr.h includes /machine/pic.h
> 
> Instead, these included headers are located in the src tree
> (/usr/src/sys/arch/x86/include). They can be linked in to satisfy the
> dependency, but intr.h errors out due to missing some expected
> characters.
> 
> Does anyone know why these files would be missing from /usr/include?
> Additionally, why would non-compilable files be placed for use in
> /usr/include?


/usr/include is for compiling userland components.  to compile
kernel code, you need a copy of the kernel source tree as well.

most of the above files probably shouldn't be installed unless
they're actually usable from userland...


.mrg.