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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Linux does it better
  • Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:26:00 +1300

James Miller wrote:
>
> Let's say someone downloaded and unpacked the kernel
> source and burned it to CD. Then, they mounted the CD
> at /cd and, from that directory did make config, make
> dep, etc. Would you expect that to work?

No. The compiling process involves quite a bit
of writing (eg object files). That normally takes
place within the source directory tree. Unless you
can redirect that to a writable filesystem, you will
not be able to compile source code on a read-only
filesystem.

Cheers,
Steven

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