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authorMarc Heerdink <gimli@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-01-14 14:14:45 +0000
committerMarc Heerdink <gimli@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-01-14 14:14:45 +0000
commit420aa7ab59731a96a5be110025ffd661697e5ba3 (patch)
tree0d50a3296b96d76a7b83b4f3606c0d46c68165f7 /chapter05/kernel-exp.xml
parent6c999f212b8e301ab603a248b36a98810a53aa4c (diff)
The installation of the kernel headers in chapter 5 was changed so having the
sources in a directory other than /usr/src/linux won't break the cp. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1430 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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+++ b/chapter05/kernel-exp.xml
@@ -10,28 +10,24 @@ the user (it does this by simply doing the equivalent of hitting the
Enter key, thus accepting the default Y and N answers to the questions).
We're not configuring the real kernel here, we just need to have some sort
of configure file created so that we can run make dep next that will
-create a few files in $LFS/usr/src/linux/include/linux, like version.h,
-among others, that we will need to compile Glibc and other packages later
-in chroot.</para>
+create a few header files in <filename>include/linux</filename>, like
+version.h, among others, that we will need to compile Glibc and other
+packages later in chroot.</para>
<para><userinput>make dep:</userinput> make dep checks dependencies and sets
up the dependencies file. We don't really care about the dependency
checks, but what we do care about is that make dep creates those
-aforementioned files in $LFS/usr/src/linux/include/linux we will be
+aforementioned files in <filename>include/linux</filename> we will be
needing later on.</para>
-<para><userinput>cp -a ../src/linux/include/linux .</userinput> and
-<userinput>mkdir asm &amp;&amp; cp -a ../src/linux/include/asm/*
-asm</userinput>:
-These commands copy the kernel headers in the
-<filename>$LFS/usr/include</filename> directory.</para>
+<para><userinput>cp -HR include/asm $LFS/usr/include</userinput>
+and <userinput>cp -HR include/linux $LFS/usr/include</userinput>:
+These commands copy the required kernel header files to
+<filename>$LFS/usr/include</filename>.</para>
-<para><userinput>chown -R root.root $LFS/usr/include/linux</userinput> and
-<userinput>chown -R root.root $LFS/usr/include/asm</userinput>:
-These commands change the ownership of the
-<filename>$LFS/usr/include/linux</filename> and the
-<filename>$LFS/usr/include/asm</filename> directories, plus all the
-files contained therein to the user root and group root.</para>
+<para><userinput>chown -R root.root $LFS/usr/include</userinput>:
+This ensures all header files under <filename>$LFS/usr/include</filename>
+are owned by user root and group root.</para>
</sect2>