Re: [Xenomai-help] preferred uid?

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

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.

-- 
					    Gilles.