On Mon, 28 May 2001, Richard Adams wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Ken Moffat wrote:
>
> > Two final thoughts. Remember to read Documentation/Changes in the source
> > for the new kernel, several utilities need to be upgraded. Also, making
> > kernels in /usr/src/linux can be dangerous - packages, particularly glibc,
> > can rely on finding the headers there for the kernel against which they
> > were compiled. Some people recommend building kernels in ~/, I use
> > /usr/src/local, the exact place you build them doesn't matter that much.
>
> I thought 'make mrproper took care of symbolic links to asm and include files.?
> and why could it be danerous to have /usr/src/linux, after all the directory
> "linux" should be a symbolic link to the kernel version, normally
> /usr/src/linux-{version} is a symlink to /usr/src/linux that is AFAIK "the
> linux way" of doing things, or at least thats how slackware does it, if that
> were dangerous then they certainly would not do it that way would they.?
>
Richard,
I defer to your greater knowledge. On other lists I have seen protracted
comments about /usr/src/linux. I have definitely seen people report
problems after untarring new kernel source over their existing
/usr/src/linux.
Ken
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