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On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:24:40PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 1) is it possible to compile kernel without root privileges? (for
> compiling for other machines)

Yes, it is. To be simple, you can change the owner of the sys tree:

chown -R myuser:mygroup /sys

and you will be able to build it perfectly. OTOH, you may be able to
set some variables to change obj and compile directories. Take a look
to the BUILDING document included in /usr/src.


> 2) if i will upgrade whole system to 1.6 when it will be available, can i
> still compile 1.5.2 kernel?

Yes, too. Although to build 1.5 userland you will need to use a "virtual"
root with chroot, so the build process can find all needed files in place
(include's, lib's, etc). With 1.6, this problem disapperes.

HTH

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Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>

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