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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink
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On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:06:35 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:
> > Nikos is being kind to the document writers :-)
>
> Thanks for saving me from the Dunce cap...hehe.
>
> But I might yet acquire full rights to it..
>
> So, is the symlink not really necessary? Doe something look at
> /usr/src/linux for files?
Yes, almost every app that installs kernel drivers will go to /usr/src/linux/
looking for kernel sources
> For example, if you cd 'ed into the sources top dir. And started
> `make' (after the makeconfig step), would it matter if there was a
> symlink or not?
It doesn't matter at all. There's a Makefile in that directory and it will do
whatever it's supposed to do. The symlink to it is irrelevant and is only
there as a shortcut with a known name
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com