On Sunday 19 August 2007 7:58:50 pm Peter Santimauro wrote: > I am working on building the LFS system, I am currently installing > diffutils in 5.17. I ran the ./configure ... , make, and make > install. Make install finishes with an error, saying that it cannot > create regular file /usr/local/bin/cmp, .../bin/diff, .../bin/diff3. > ../bin/sdiff, Permission denied. > > Does anyone know why I could get this error?
You are trying to install diffutils to the host system. The lfs user doesn't have permissions to install there, that is what brings the error. It would be an error to install 5.17 Diffutils there, it should go into /mnt/lfs/tools. > Did i mess something up > earlyer? I dont want to move on until i resolve this issue, because > this it like my 6th attempt to build LFS. > Did you use for the --> ./configure --prefix=/tools > Also I am using the LFS live cd for the build. > > thanks > pete -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
