my kernel headers are hosed!

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:57:10 PDT 2004


On 12/21/03 13:44, Collins wrote:
>>Seems that Linus issued this edict back in the late 2.2.x days.
> 
> 
> Yeah, I read that edict.  Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that he was 
> merely stating the obvious (i.e. existing behavior) rather than introducing 
> something new.  The same memo also discussed his preference for doing kernel 
> compiles as normal user, switching to root only for the modules_install.

I honestly don't know if you're right or wrong.  I just found out about 
this last week when i was trying to build 2.6.0 on an ancient RH-6.2 
box, and it didn't go too well.

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