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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug] 2.5.25 build as one user and install as root
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 22:00:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30159.1025956852@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Jul 2002 13:28:06 +0200." <3D26D446.6050206@oracle.com>

On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 13:28:06 +0200, 
Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> 2.5.25 existing build system has a nasty bug.  Build as one user then
>> make install as root.  It does supurious recompiles of some files and
>> leaves them owned as root.  All of these files are now owned by root
>> and cause problems when the build user wants to rebuild.
>
>Doesn't happen for me.

Check include/linux/compile.h after building as yourself and after
installing as root.  make install goes

bzImage -> setup.o -> compile.h -> scripts/mkcompile_h ->
#define LINUX_COMPILE_BY \"`whoami`\"

whoami is different when you compile as one user then install as
another.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-06 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-06  8:35 Keith Owens
2002-07-06 11:28 ` Alessandro Suardi
2002-07-06 12:00   ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-07-07 21:25     ` Alessandro Suardi
2002-07-08  1:22       ` Keith Owens

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