On 05/11/2011 05:31 PM, luxInteg wrote:
> 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?
As we already told you, it is preferable to run
make
then
sudo make install
For reasons already explained in the three answers you received.
--
Gilles.
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