"Holger Wiechert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just need a tip about where to place source files. > I downloaded the kernel sources (kernel-source-2.4.18) > and the kernel-headers (kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf.2.4) via dselect. > So they are now in /usr/src. I read somewhere that it's not a good > idea to place them directly below /usr/src. > Can anyone give me a good hint where to put (extract) the sources > and how the final directory structure should look like?
Anywhere you want. I happen to use $HOME/src for some things and /usr/local/src for others. (The place I use /usr/local/src it's because /usr/local is on a larger partition.) If you're installing external kernel modules (ALSA, OpenAFS, lm-sensors, ...), those also come in tarballs in /usr/src; if you're unpacking them somewhere else, you need to set MODULE_LOC to point to that directory (default is /usr/src/modules). > Is it usually a good approach to manually change the makefile such > that the compiler will find the headers or is there any better way > (like using the compiler's search path and only providing a link > to the sources)? Probably the best approach is to give the location of the kernel headers on the command line: make KERNEL_LOCATION=/usr/local/src/linux-2.4.19 (Using whatever magic variable for KERNEL_LOCATION is in the Makefile, and whatever value for it is appropriate.) Also, if you're building your own kernel, I highly recommend using kernel-package. Install the kernel-package package, and read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.Debian for details. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
