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 > -- > The way out is open! > http://www.theopensourcerer.com >
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