Thanks for the answers Alan and Philippe...

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:05 +0000, Alan Lord wrote:
> Luuk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > i started reading the BOOK (Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20071125)
> > i have the following questioon:
> > 
> > In chapter 5.3.1 binutils-2.18 - Pass 1 the following is mentioned:
> > The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of the
> > source directory in a dedicated build directory:
> > mkdir -v ../binutils-build
> > 
> >>From WHICH directory am i supposed to do the 'mkdir ../??'
> > or, in other words, where should the directory 'binutils-2.18' be
> > created?
> > 
> > Luuk
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi Luuk,
> 
> All the commands are expected to be done in the extracted source 
> directory. (I think it explains this early on in the book but perhaps it 
> isn't terribly clear as you are not the first one to ask)
> 
> So let's say you have a directory under your home called builds. You 
> untar binutils-2.18 in there and you should end up with the following path:
> 
> ~/builds/binutils-2.18/
> 
> After untarring you should always cd into the newly created source tree 
> (directory) *before* doing anything else.
> 
> ~ means your home directory to the command line so something like 
> /home/luuk/ for example.
> 
> You run the command "mkdir -v ../binutils-build" from within that source 
> dir so you end up with
> 
> ~/builds/binutils-2.18/ *and*
> ~/builds/binutils-build/
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Alan
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