Hi Kevin, Tks for your advice.
> The way you should go about it is > cd $LFS/sources > tar xvjf binutils-2.16.tar.bz2 > cd binutils-2.16 > mkdir ../binutils-build > cd ../binutils-build I have been proceeding the way as abovementioned and now coming to: 5.5. GCC-3.4.1 - Pass 1 http://www.sg.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.0/chapter05/gcc-pass1.html All packages have to be extracted first as described otherwise impossible to proceed. - snip - > The .bashrc > and .bash_profile were created by you when you set > up the user, they set > up the PATH and other important variables. > .bash_history is a history > of the commands you've typed in. Seems like you > were expecting them to > be in $LFS, which is not the case. They are to set > up the environment > for the temporary user on your host environment. > Look in another users > directory on your host system and you will see they > have those files as > well. > > $LFS/tools is empty because you haven't installed > anything yet. Noted with thanks B.R. Stephen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
