Permission denied when building kernel

[lonely wolf]

Matthew East wrote:

>Yes in the README file with the kernel source it underlines that one
>should compile as user, and then su to install. But I was using the
>command "make rpm" as I thought that if I didn't install the kernel as
>an rpm, then it might cause difficulties for the other rpm packages
>which depended on the kernel. The "make rpm" command seems to require
>you to be root, possibly (I'm no expert) as it uses the /usr/src/redhat
>area.
>
use http://erizo.ucdavis.edu/~dmk/notes/RPMs/Creating_RPMs.html as a 
guide for how to build rpm packages as normal user.

ps1: %_topdir    is enough to build rpm. the %_tmppath is just a 
security addon.
ps2: i have never succeeded in building rpm of non-modular kernels. 
"make rpm" fails while triyng the " make modules " part.