Re: MOL Modules Compilation weirdness

["Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>]

>> You should not have a /usr/src/linux directory. You might put
>> something there to help you avoid temptation:
>
> I'm curious...  Why do you regard this as a bad thing to do?

First of all, why would you have one special copy of the kernel
source? It's OK to have 42 copies or none at all. Giving a
special status to one of them is a strange thing to do.

Getting rid of /usr/src/linux helps you avoid the temptation
to turn /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux into symlinks.
If you fell to this temptation, you'd break your glibc install.

Some would also argue that having /usr/src/linux encourages you
to compile the kernel as root, and that this is bad. I'm not so
sure about that, given that you'll be installing the code as
root anyway, but you might care.