On Wednesday 11 May 2011 16:32:06 Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > 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.
so perhaps you should update the INSTALL file that accompany released tarballs of xenomai then? _______________________________________________ Xenomai-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help
