On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:08:50PM -0600, Clyde Forrester wrote: > I think that the book's instructions place those dummy files rather > specifically,
Well, not really. The instructions take place relative to your current working directory, which, depending on how you view it, may or may not be the gcc-build dir at that point. The book tells you to run tests after you install GCC. In chapter 6 it says something like 'Now that our final toolchain is in place...'. An astute reader at this point might observe that we're done compiling and installing GCC and conclude that it is safe to delete the directories in use. In this case, that assumption is correct. On the other hand, the book does not tell you exactly when to remove the directories, other than 'when we're done with the package' which could be interpreted as 'at the end of the page.' Many people will do as you did and run the tests inside the gcc-build directory. In any case, manual removal of those files ensures that we're not leaving garbage about. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
