[SuSE Linux] Broken symbolic links in 5.3 fresh install.

5 Mar 1999

      Hello, I am new to the mailing list, so my apologies if this issue has been
covered in the past.
  Less than a week ago I switched from RedHat 5.1 installation to SuSe 5.3
[kernel 2.0.35].
  I have fixed the problem which I am about to describe, but I would like to
let other newbies know how to fix it if they experience the same thing.  I
would also like to know if I can expect any other problems along the same
lines.   
  I installed all the relevant C development stuff neccesary to compile
programs.   When I tried to compile a few basic programs, I kept getting errors
about  'No such file or directory...'  for  'linux/*.h' files which were being
refered to by other files.  The files were there--well, they were on my hard
disk that is, I knew  because I could find them.     My newbieness kept me
puzzling over this for longer than I'd like to admit, but I did eventually
figure out that the problem was two broken symbolic links:   /usr/include/asm 
-was linked to-> ../src/linux/include/asm     which should've been linked to->
.../src/linux-2.0.35/include/asm & number two
  /usr/include/linux  -was linked to-> ../src/linux/include/linux
     which should've been linked to->   ../src/linux-2.0.35/include/linux

  I just checked, & it seems that the scsi link also is broken in the same
way...   
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