Linux Headers question

[Reece Dunn]

On 21/11/2007, Thomas Trepl <thomas at equinox.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Hi Reece,
>
> On Wednesday 21 November 2007 21:35:48 Reece Dunn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the sections on building the Linux headers from the kernel sources,
> > the build instructions are (for section 6):
> >
> >     make mrproper
> >     make headers_check
> >     make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=dest headers_install
> >     cp -rv dest/include/* /usr/include
> >
> > What is the rationale behind the last two lines? Why not simply run:
> >
> >     make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr/include headers_install
> Because this would clean the /usr/include first and than install the headers.
> With this, some installed headers will be lost.

Thanks for the info (both you and Mark).

- Reece