On 7/5/07, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David Burgess wrote:
> Hey, all,
>
> I'm really enjoying the clfs book so far and finding it very well
> explained and easy to follow.
>
> I'm having some trouble with section 5, "Constructing Cross-Compile
> Tools". My problem becomes obvious in sub-section 5.4.1, but I suspect
> it relates back to an omission somewhere earlier. I'm pretty sure I
> followed the directions thus far, and I re-read the preceding chapters
> to be sure, but I don't see where I strayed.
>
> The specific bash command
>
> cp -av include/asm-i386 /tools/include/asm
>
> is given, but I'm not sure where this source directory (include/asm) is
> supposed to be. The book isn't explicit what directory I'm to be in at
> this point, although having done
>
> su clfs
>
> , I am in
>
> /home/clfs
>
> by default and there is no
>
> include
>
> directory here. My host machine has a
>
> /usr/include
>
> directory. Is that the one I'm copying? I also have a
>
> /tools/include
>
> directory at this point, but there's no
>
> asm-i386
>
> directory in there to copy from. If I unpack the linux-2.6.17.13.tar.bz2
> that I downloaded as per instructions, then there appears to be an
>
> include
>
> direcory in there as well. But the book has made no mention of unpacking
> any of the downloaded packages at this point and I wouldn't know where
> to unpack them to. Perhaps ${CLFS}? Or is it ${CLFS}/tools? Or
> ${CLFS}/cross-tools?
>
> Can somebody please clarify this for me?
>
> Sorry about all the line breaks, gmail seems to insist when using
> fixed-width font.
>
> db
>
>
On page 5.1 it says that all package installation instructions assume
that you have just unpacked the source tarball and entered the created
directory. So, unpack the package, enter its source dir, then follow the
instructions on the page.
________________________
Thanks for the speedy and complete response. I obviously missed that point.
db
_______________________________________________
Clfs-support mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-support
