Hi Reece, On Wednesday 21 November 2007 21:35:48 Reece Dunn wrote: > Hi, > > In the sections on building the Linux headers from the kernel sources, > the build instructions are (for section 6): > > make mrproper > make headers_check > make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=dest headers_install > cp -rv dest/include/* /usr/include > > What is the rationale behind the last two lines? Why not simply run: > > make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr/include headers_install Because this would clean the /usr/include first and than install the headers. With this, some installed headers will be lost.
> > The same goes for the toolchain instructions. > > - Reece -- Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
