Installing a compiler by default

Erast Benson erast at gnusolaris.org
Wed Jun 14 22:43:08 BST 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:00 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:47:51AM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > Furthermore, it's almost never as simple as
> > - install build-essential
> > - untar
> > - configure
> > - make
> > - sudo make install
> 
> For kernel modules, it's often that simple, or simpler (kernel modules don't
> use autoconf ;-) ).

Big "IF" here:

...if driver's source corresponds this particular minor release of a
kernel + patches changes, which is almost never the case in real life.

Erast




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