[pyddr-discuss] ddrmat patches

[Joe Wreschnig]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:54, stephen at thorne.id.au wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2004 17:36:08 -0500, Joe Wreschnig <piman at debian.org> wrote:
> >On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 16:39, Ed Anderson wrote:
> > > It seems you must have write access to the kernel tree to compile the=20
> > > module.  ie most users must compile as root.  This should probably be=20
> > > mentioned in the readme for the new release too.
> > 
> > Man, do people still compile their kernels as root? *grumble* *updates
> > README*
> 
> make-kpkg requires either root, or you to use fakeroot. A little vexing, but
> considering the infrequency that I actually do compile kernels I just accept
> it.

It's actually building the Debian package that requires root (fakeroot),
not the kernel compilation itself.
-- 
Joe Wreschnig <piman at debian.org>
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