Changeset 66e4325 for chapter05/kernelheaders-inst.xml

Timestamp:

06/03/2003 10:25:25 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

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Children:

592cfd6

Parents:

8f999de5

Message:

Applied Alex' "apapting-the-text.patch" patch

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2639 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter05/kernelheaders-inst.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter05/kernelheaders-inst.xml

@@ -4 +4 @@
 <title>Installation of the kernel headers</title>
 
-<para>We won't be compiling a new kernel yet -- we'll do that when we have
-finished the installation of all the packages. But as some packages need the
-kernel header files, we're going to unpack the kernel archive now, set it up
-and copy the header files so they can be found by these packages.</para>
+<para>As some packages need to refer to the kernel header files, we're going
+to unpack the kernel archive now, set it up, and copy the required files to a
+place where <userinput>gcc</userinput> can later find them.</para>
 
-<para>It is important to note that the files in the kernel source directory
-are not owned by <emphasis>root</emphasis>. Whenever you unpack a package as
-user <emphasis>root</emphasis> (like we do here inside chroot), the files end
-up having the user and group IDs of whatever they were on the packager's
-computer. This is usually not a
-problem for any other package you install because you remove the source
-tree after the installation. But the Linux kernel source tree is often kept
-around for a long time, so there's a chance that whatever user ID the packager
-used will be assigned to somebody on your machine and then that person would
-have write access to the kernel source.</para>
-
-<para>In light of this, you might want to run <userinput>chown -R 0:0</userinput>
-on the <filename>linux-&kernel-version;</filename> directory
-to ensure all files are owned by user <emphasis>root</emphasis>.</para>
-
-<para>Prepare for header installation:</para>
+<para>Prepare for the header installation with:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>make mrproper</userinput></screen></para>
@@ -42 +26 @@
 <para><screen><userinput>make symlinks</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>Install the platform specific-header files:</para>
+<para>Install the platform-specific header files:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>mkdir /stage1/include/asm