Re: New course for Debian University
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:54:54PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:30:07PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:29:12PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> > > I think it would be wise (and more debian like:) to explain how to
> > > compile the kernel as *non* root using fakeroot. Furthermore I seem
> > > to recall discussions on this list that it's better to refrain from
> > > using/creating that /usr/src/linux link.
> >
> > I've been reading that as well, but I have yet to find out why it is a bad
> > idea. Also, when my system was originally installed I didn't have
> > /usr/src/linux symlink, but until I made one I couldn't compile any modules.
> > So how would one tell code that needs to look for the kernel headers to look
> > somewhere else?
>
> I think there's confusion between making links in /usr/include and
> links in /usr/src. The first is bad [0], the second is (afaik) not.
Hmm, as I understood it, making a /usr/src/linux link is bad, /usr/include,
AFAIK, is not the issue. The module I tried to compiled looked for the
kernel-includes in /usr/src/linux/include. I'm just wondering why
/usr/src/linux is bad, and how to tell compiles to look somewhere other than
/usr/src/linux.
-Rob
Reply to: