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

[<andy@theasis.com>]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu wrote:

> 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. =)

Redhat too...

> 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...  

This is recommended safer practice for any compile; or, for that matter
any operation at all:  don't do it as root if you don't have to!

Andy

> 
> Gabe
>