Re: [Xenomai-help] preferred uid?

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 22:01 +0100, luxInteg wrote:
> 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?

Do not hesitate to contribute such update since you are now well aware
of the issue, a simple patch would do. Anything which may help the
Xenomai maintainers to cope with the workload involved in bringing you
that software is welcome.

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Philippe.