From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4DCAABF6.9090606@domain.hid> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 17:32:06 +0200 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <201105101823.50226.lux-integ@domain.hid> <4DC990BF.8040102@domain.hid> <201105111631.00882.lux-integ@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <201105111631.00882.lux-integ@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] preferred uid? List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: luxInteg Cc: Xenomai help 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.