Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:42:12 +0200 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: relative objtree change broke tar builds? |
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Dne 19.6.2014 03:21, Ken Moffat napsal(a): > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:47:28PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: >> >> The idea is that one should be able to compare as much as possible >> between the build of /usr/src/linux-<version_a> built in >> /usr/src/linux-<version_a>/build and /usr/src/linux-<version_b> built in >> /usr/src/linux-<version_b>/build. > [...] > Some of us (me included) often build things as root, but it has > many risks and people ought not to be led to believe it is > necessarily the correct way to do things. Over the past 14 years I > have built kernels in ~/ as well as in other user-writable > directories and I am puzzled about why the idea of /usr/src/linux* > continues to exist.
I just used /usr/src/linux as an example. If I wrote /dev/shm/linux-2.6/build, which is where I often builf kernels, then I'm sure somebody would complain that they tried it and ran out of memory :-).
Michal
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