Re: proper permissions for /usr/src/linux
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?
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Brian J. Stults
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