Yes. The 'cd'  was the critical part which I overlooked.
The notice was even marked "Important".
Go figure. :-)
Maybe I was subconsciously interpreting the ! icon as "not". As in NOT 
Important. :-)

Clyde Forrester

Trent Shea wrote:
> On Thursday 16 August 2007 12:05, Clyde Forrester wrote:
>   
>> mkdir -v ../binutils-build
>> cd ../binutils-build
>> ../binutils-2.16.1/configure yadda yadda yadda
>>     
>
> There is an important message in the Chapter 5 Introduction:
>
> Before issuing the build instructions for a package, the package should be 
> unpacked as user lfs, and a cd into the created directory should be 
> performed. The build instructions assume that the bash shell is in use.
>   

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