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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bug] 2.5.25 build as one user and install as root 
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On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 13:28:06 +0200, 
Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> 2.5.25 existing build system has a nasty bug.  Build as one user then
>> make install as root.  It does supurious recompiles of some files and
>> leaves them owned as root.  All of these files are now owned by root
>> and cause problems when the build user wants to rebuild.
>
>Doesn't happen for me.

Check include/linux/compile.h after building as yourself and after
installing as root.  make install goes

bzImage -> setup.o -> compile.h -> scripts/mkcompile_h ->
#define LINUX_COMPILE_BY \"`whoami`\"

whoami is different when you compile as one user then install as
another.

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