Aw, beauty! That worked well! Except that sudo has a snit fit over "export". (I should explain that while I'm saying that, that I have a big dippy grin on my face. The reason being that every time I trip over something like that, I'm learning yet another thing which will put me on the path to being a super-admin. So thanks.)
Anyway, I'm now perched once again, with great fear and trepidation, on the precipice of Chapter 5. And I am once again baffled by: mkdir -v ../binutils-build cd ../binutils-build ../binutils-2.16.1/configure yadda yadda yadda Is binutils-build (and for that matter, are the build directories for all of Chapter 5) supposed to be in $LFS or in $LFS/sources? Because, having just unpacked binutils-2.16.1 from sources, I'm in sources, and the .. kind of throws me off. Yet the third command seems to have me in a subdirectory of sources (which is where binutils-2.16.1 is). Clyde Forrester Alec Wright wrote: > Until you get to the bit where it tells you to set up the lfs user, sudo > everything. > Btw if you want a root shell, sudo su > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:56 -0500, Clyde Forrester wrote: > >> I'm on my third attempt at LFS, so I'm going to get picky as I read through. >> >> First some history. My first attempt at LFS was from a 64 bit Ubuntu. >> Wasn't possible. Second attempt was CLFS and I bogged down. Now I have >> 32 bit Kubuntu (on a 64 bit AMD). >> >> Now the pickiness. In part 2.3 I'm guessing I should be root when making >> partitions. Maybe I missed it. It doesn't seem to say. Of course I can >> never really be root. I have to sudo wherever it is appropriate. >> >> Then in 2.4 it becomes less obvious. When I mkdir the /mnt/lfs directory >> should I be root instead of user1? Does it matter? Remember that I have >> to sudo if it does matter. >> >> In 3.1 you specifically say to execute the mkdir as root. I think it >> logically follows that the chmod must be as root, but it doesn't say, >> and I'm not sure. I think it gets snarky if I don't. >> >> Sorry if I'm being a pain, but I tend to be very thorough about >> procedures. Murphy's Law feeds on ambiguity. >> >> Clyde Forrester >> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
