On Dec 28, 2011 5:53 AM, "Dave H" <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi, i am at Chapter 5.4 of the lfs manual v7.0 and i'm confused where it says to make the binutils-build directory. > > > > i am assuming at this step, i should be user lfs and currently in the $LFS/sources directory. > > however the command mkdir -v ../binutils-build cannot successfully issued by user lfs, because the $LFS is owned by root (partition that was mounted as root). > > > SO question would be... > A: Should the owner:group of $LFS be root:root or lfs:lfs ? > **or** > B: Should the commands listed in Chapter 5.4 be issued as user root instead of user lfs? > > > (the page i am currently viewing) > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/binutils-pass1.html > > > > thank you for your time and i appreciate your generous work on linuxfromscratch. > > best regards, > dave > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > The build directory is created inside of LFS, but outside of the binutils directory. The command is executed from within the binutils directory
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