broke Speakup

[Steve Holmes]

I suppose you could but this way one could maintain several source
trees, if necessary and according to the README for the kernel you can
now configure and compile the kernel all as a normal user now and just
do the install as root.  Of course, the normal user would have to have
write privileges to that directory.  Yes you could do that with
/usr/src/linux likewise but...

I think one of the best reasons for the symlink is the multi version
kernel maintanence.  I have, for example, two source trees; one with
2.4.20 patched with speakup-1.5 and the other I play with the CVS
versions.  If the CVS version should go south or some such, I can
change the symlink to the old 1.5 tree and recompile and I'm back in
the saddle again.

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 05:56:40PM -0500, Ryan Mann wrote:
> Instead of using symbolic links, can't you just rename
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20 to /usr/src/linux?
> 
> 
> On Sat, 17 May 2003, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 
> > I don't recall exactly when the deal changed but by default linux
> > untars directly into linux-2.4.20 (or whatever version it is).  I then
> > use syn links for linux to point to the actual directory.  Speakup 1.5
> > would patch into this perfectly.  The new CVS checkout scripts can now
> > be run from with in /usr/src/linux-version. or from just about
> > anywhere else if the path is specified with the command line.
> > Somewhere between 2.4.18 and 20 this changed from the old linux top
> > level default.
> >
> > HTH.
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