Raphael Bustin wrote: > The 'patch' command in the LFS book (Sec. 5.5.1) > immediately follows three un-tar operations where the > 'root' directories of the three newly-created source trees > are renamed to mpfr, gmp, and mpc. > > I understand that the patchfile (by virtue of its name) > has something to do with gcc. But I can't relate that > to -any- of the three source trees that were just > created. > > I still don't understand where I should be when I do > the indicated 'patch' command in this instance. The > dir tree I have (just prior to the patch cmd) is > > source > source/mpfr // has configure, configure.ac > source/gmp // has configure > source/mpc // has configure, configure.ac
That is wrong. > .... So it's not clear at all which of these > directories the patch is directed at. What is > the clue that I'm missing? Section 5.3. Second note labeled important. Item 3, specifically 3b and 3c, in that order. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
