André Dahlqvist wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 03:57:03AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > no, /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm should NOT be symlinked > > into your kernel tree. debian does this right unlike most redhat > > distros. > > Exactly. And Linus has also pointed out several times that people should > *not* compile kernels in /usr/src/linux, and instead do it in their home > directory as a regular user, not root. The only time you should become > root is when you install the kernel.
That makes sense. I seem to recall that some programs expect to find a /usr/src/linux directory, though. Is this wrong, or was it true in the past, but no longer? -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
