[PLUG] Replacement for /usr/src?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Jan 16 23:16:00 UTC 2007


On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Larry Brigman wrote:

> Some source packages that use the kernel headers and do auto config look for
> the kernel sources in two places /lib/modules/`uname-r`/source and
> /usr/src/linux.

> Building a kernel does not require root privileges except to do make
> module-install and make install. Most packages will build anywhere as any
> user and only need root to run install.

Larry,

   But, there is no replacement for /usr/src/linux in the LSB that I could
find with Google, and there's no downside to continuing to build as root in
that directory, is there?

Rich

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