That fixed it! Thanks for your help.
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Sent: Saturday, April 2, 2011 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Binutils First Round
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:03:24 -0700 (PDT)
Spencer Boyd <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry about the typo, I made it when typing the email not entering the
> command.
>
> I think you may have found something:
>
> spencer@spencer-desktop:~$ file /tools
> /tools: directory
>
> ls /tools
> bin i686-lfs-linux-gnu lib share
>
> Should the above be in /mnt/lfs/tools and not in /tools?
If you'd made the symlink they would have ended up in /mnt/lfs/tools
> And when I try to overwrite the existing symlink I get:
>
> spencer@spencer-desktop:~$ ln -svf /mnt/lfs/tools /
> ln: `/tools': cannot overwrite directory
Indeed. It looks as though you forgot to make the symlink. What I don't
understand is how a directory /tools got made, owned by the user lfs?
> spencer@spencer-desktop:~$ ls -l /
> drwxr-xr-x 6 lfs root 4096 2011-03-31 21:22 tools
>
As root,
rm -rf /tools
ln -sv /mnt/lfs/tools /
Then you should be ready to start chapter 5.
Andy
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