Re: Confused about kernel source location
Frank McCormick(fmccormick@videotron.ca) is reported to have said:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400
> > Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <ghostbar38@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > > I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel,
> > > > which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of
> > > > the first things it says is " DO NOT USE THE /usr/src area"
> > > > because that is where the headers for libc I guess are stored.
> > > > What is up here ?
> > >
> > > Well, I always store there all the sources related with my kernel,
> > > modules, etc... I haven't get any problem... BTW, remember doing the
> > > symlink to /usr/src/linux from your kernel-source.
> >
> > Well then why the warning from the Kernel developers? And what's
> > this about symlinking? Symlinking what to what ?
>
>
> Anybody? Where do people dump their kernel source anyway???
>
I have always put my kernels in /usr/src. First time I've _ever_
heard of " DO NOT USE THE /usr/src area". Just what readme did you
see _that_ in?
Wayne
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