Installing a compiler by default

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Thu Jun 8 19:56:34 BST 2006


On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:15:59PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:02 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > If the point is to compile kernel modules, doesn't that also require
> > the
> > > full kernel source?
> > 
> > No. 
> 
> This is why I asked for a *specific* use case because many drivers
> certainly do require the full kernel source to install (ALSA for
> example).

ALSA builds fine with kernel headers; the alsa-source package in Debian and
universe works this way.

-- 
 - mdz



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