--- Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/3/06, elmarsa dice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have read it carefully and I think this is where I have my > > problem. I understand I need to enter the source directory but > > where to put the source directory is the question. In sections > > 5.4 and 5.5 I cp'd the source directories to the -build > > directories and unpacked them there and did the configure. > > Not quite right. The implied procedure is this, assuming all the > tarballs and patches are in $LFS/sources. > > cd $LFS/sources > tar -xf $TARBALL > cd $TARBALL_DIR > > where TARBALL and TARBALL_DIR would be specific to the package. > From > there, you start issuing the commands on the page. Dan, Thank you for the clarification. As I mentioned to Chris in another message I totally missed the significance of section 3.l and did not understand the concept that if the action taken is inside the shell viz., $LFS the process will take care of finding the right place to put things. So now I'm off again. Thank you very much for the help. > > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > elmarsa __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
