On 6/18/07, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you have to solve this issue before you go any further. First, > is /bin in your PATH? Can you run /bin/ls? You might want to check the > directory and file permissions for /bin, /lib, /sbin, etc. > > Sorry, I don't understand. The configure script looked for /bin/rm but > couldn't find it. Yes /bin is in my path but rm ls and ln when issuing a > "which" command report that they are in /usr/bin I can use the rm ls and ln > commands as I'd expect. I've currently built a number of packages for this > system and ncftp is the only one I've had this kind of problem. Strangely an > older version that I built on the same system a year ago threw the same error.
If rm and ls are in /usr/bin, then that is a bug in your setup. They are expected to be in /bin for many reasons, one of which is assumptions by other utilities. That's where we install them in LFS. > /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/gena/bin > total 2256 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2952 2007-06-14 12:06 arch > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 595100 2007-06-14 12:06 bash > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6806 2007-06-12 21:36 bashbug > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2007-06-12 21:44 bunzip2 -> bzip2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2007-06-12 21:44 bzcat -> bzip2 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34005 2007-06-14 12:06 bzip2 What directory is that? Should be /bin. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
