On Tuesday 10 May 2011 20:23:43 Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > On 05/10/2011 07:23 PM, luxInteg wrote: > > greetings > > > > I normally compile stuff as an ordinary user, but I noticed in this > > area people often compile as root as kernel modules are involved. I > > note xenomai can be compiled either as user or root so is there a > > preferred way ? > > As others have said, compile as ordinary user, run make install or make > modules_install as root, or run "sudo make install". Another reason for > running "make install" as root, is that root privilege is also required > to create the device nodes (/dev/rtheap, /dev/rtp*) needed by Xenomai > applications.
yes this is my rule of thumb too However as I read through the install file in the xenomai tarball I noticed there was only reference to 'make install' (at least on x86 platforms). i did this and did not bother with running make. Is this acceptable? sincerely luxInteg _______________________________________________ Xenomai-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help
