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

[Yaron <jethro@freakzilla.com>]

  Hi,

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 andy@theasis.com wrote:

> > 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!

Non-root, sure, but I'm not doing that in my homedir. Too much of a mess
there anyway... I just have /usr/local/src chowned to my regular user. 

On my home system, anyway.


-Yaron

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