On Dec 29, 2011 7:37 AM, "Dave H" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ok thank you everyone that clears it up. i had this on digest mode so i
didn't see the responses until now, so i just changed it.
>
> i didn't realize that big red exclamation point box was a step itself. i
thought it was a kind of important concept overview or summary of what is
to be laid out ahead in the proceeding steps (pages).
>
> however after what firerat mentioned...now i'm wondering, will having the
owner of $LFS being root:root cause problems later on?
>
> i dont remember anywhere before chapter 5.4 and after mounting the lfs
partition to change the owner:group of $LFS to lfs:lfs.
>
My bad, it may not be in the book, I just do that so my lfs user can create
the dirs as I don't like doing things as root ;)
As for being a problem , nope
the last step in chapter 5 is
chown -R root:root $LFS/tools
simply leave off the tools
chown -R root:root $LFS
and everthing on your LFS partition will be owned by root.
This saves you having to worry about uids from your host system being
hungover.
>
>
> thanks for your time,
>
> dave
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:00 AM, <[email protected]>
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>> 1. confusion setting up binutils-build directory (Dave H)
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>> 3. Re: confusion setting up binutils-build directory (Andrew Benton)
>> 4. Re: confusion setting up binutils-build directory (Firerat)
>> 5. Re: confusion setting up binutils-build directory (Simon Geard)
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>> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:53:04 -0500
>> From: Dave H <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [lfs-support] confusion setting up binutils-build directory
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>> 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
>> rootinstead of user
>> lfs?*
>>
>>
>> (the page i am currently viewing)
>>
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/binutils-pass1.html
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>>
>>
>> thank you for your time and i appreciate your generous work on
>> linuxfromscratch.
>>
>> best regards,
>> dave
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>> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:56:33 -0500
>> From: John Fanjoy <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [lfs-support] confusion setting up binutils-build
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>> 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
>> >
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>> The build directory is created inside of LFS, but outside of the binutils
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>> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:22:35 +0000
>> From: Andrew Benton <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [lfs-support] confusion setting up binutils-build
>> directory
>> To: [email protected]
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>> On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:53:04 -0500
>> 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).
>>
>> Read the book, particularly the box marked important on this page:
>>
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/generalinstructions.html
>> So, on each page you should untar the source, cd into the
>> directory created and then start executing the commands on the page.
>> So, for binutils you should start in /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.21.1
>> and mkdir -v ../binutils-build will make
>> /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build. If you're following the book
>> /mnt/lfs/sources is owned and writable for user lfs so there is no
>> problem.
>>
>> Andy
>>
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:21:41 +0000
>> From: Firerat <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [lfs-support] confusion setting up binutils-build
>> directory
>> To: LFS Support List <[email protected]>
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>> $LFS shouldn't be owned by root, instead it should be owned by your lfs
>> build user, as root
>> chown lfs:lfs $LFS -R
>>
>> tbh off the top of my head I can't recall if this is detailed in chapter4
>>
>> Personally I create a build dir on the root of LFS
>> mkdir $LFS/build
>> I then symlink the sources/patch files into it
>> ln -s $LFS/sources/* $LFS/build/
>>
>> This way if I decide I want to start over I can just delete everthing
>> except sources
>> which is easier than cleaning up dirs in source
>>
>> to make the untar and cd a little quicker ( and much easier for scripts )
>> I create this 'function'
>>
>> untar () { cd $( tar -vxf $1 | awk -F\/ 'END{print $1}' ) }
>>
>> it is very basic, it could be expanded to do checks ( like file exists
etc.
>> )
>>
>> untar sometarball.tar.bz2
>>
>> very useful if you are scripting a build, as you don't need to guess
where
>> stuff was untared to, you automatically end up in the desired dir.
>> On Dec 28, 2011 10:53 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
rootinstead 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
>> >
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:28:51 +1300
>> From: Simon Geard <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [lfs-support] confusion setting up binutils-build
>> directory
>> To: [email protected]
>> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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>> On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 05:53 -0500, Dave H 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.
>>
>> No. Remember, *every* package in LFS assumes that you've first extracted
>> the appropriate sources, and gone into the resulting directory. Then,
>> and only then, do you run the instructions on the individual page.
>>
>> If you're not doing this, go back and reread the section titled "General
>> Compilation Instructions". Particularly the bit at the bottom marked
>> "Important!", with a big heavy "pay attention" border around it. We're
>> not joking when we say it's important.
>>
>> Simon.
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