On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:35:52PM -0500, Josh wrote: > Cool, I'll try this. Is there a reason for not doing the whole thing as > root? > When I compiled the first time, I could not do the'make mrproper' except as > root (some weird stuff happened, but I don't remember exactly what). But I > haven't checked the path as normal user (I don't know why else 'make' > wouldn't work).
probably the kernel source tree is owned by someone else. i never compile anything as root, instead i have a user `build' who has write support to /usr/src and /usr/local/src, i extract the kernel tarball as user build into /usr/local/src/ mv it to linux-2.2.16 (or whatever version) then create a linux -> linux-2.2.16 symlink. i also have a /usr/src/linux -> /usr/local/src/linux symlink. (/usr/local is its own partition, and in keeping with package manager convention i keep all non-packaged source code in /usr/local/src) all the steps of compiling kernels works fine as build (with the exception of make modules_install) i usually use kernel-package to build kernels anyway, its a nice way to manage kernel images. the reason i have a separate account is simply that i don't want to have write permission to installed source code, i want it protected along with all the binaries on the system. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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