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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] preferred  uid?
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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.

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                                                                Gilles.