On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Ali Hamza wrote:
I m building LFS Version 5.2.1.
In chapter six when i configured coreutils-5.2.1.
with
DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209 ./configure --prefix =/usr
command i received the following error message
configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: =/usr
Ran this on my machine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] coreutils-5.2.1]$ DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209
./configure --prefix =/usr
configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: =/usr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] coreutils-5.2.1]$ DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209
./configure --prefix=/usr
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
So I guess you can't give that space in --prefix=/usr. The arguments are
seperated by spaces. So you are not passing any value for --prefix.
Vamsee
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