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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