Compiling code
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Jul 26 16:15:05 UTC 2008
Keith Clark wrote:
> I'm trying to compile some device drivers to no avail. All I get is a
> huge string of error codes each time. With a stock Ubuntu 8.04 install,
> does this allow a su to compile code?
Generally, in any version of Linux, you don't _compile_ as root.
You know the drill:
./configure
make
make install
you only need the last as root.
In any case, it would be a whole lot easier if you gave us the error
messages. As an enlightened guess, I'd suspect you need to
install "build-essentials"
--
derek
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