on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:03:44PM +0100, markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
But, the problem is that sometimes even supposedly "respectable" sites contain astoundingly bad advice. I remember seeing a FAQ for some piece of software (I think it was a video player) advising debian users having trouble compiling to make a symlink from /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include or similar. The correct answer is to install the kernel-headers package for your kernel. Nevertheless, that FAQ had gone unchallenged for over a year, probably resulting in several broken debian boxes...
yes, alas, this does happen, and with more serious things. One of the few books on C programming available for free also happens to be one of the worst I've read. Available from http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html has consistent errors throughout.