Re: [TCLUG:22888] Kernel Source Tree (was: Re: [TCLUG:22862] SCSI emulation)

[dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:51:14AM -0500, Andy Zbikowski wrote:
> > > then, tar xvfz linux-2.2.17.tar.gz -C /usr/src
> > 
> > You shouldn't put new kernels in /usr/src/linux. If you do you'll end up
> > overwriting the header files which libc was compiled against.
> 
> Not on every system. Debian shoves thouse headers in /usr/include/linux. So
> the command is safe on a Debian system. Sorry, distro biased command. =)
> 

Yeah, I've always done it the historical way and thrown my src in /usr/src,
but according to Linus, we should all be building our kernel in our home
directories as non-root users...  

Gabe
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