On Jan 31, 2012, at 5:48 AM, rafe_b wrote:
> Please show me, in *either* book version (6.8 or 7.0)
> the step where I was supposed to untar the gcc
> tarball.
>
> I've been accused of not reading carefully enough,
> so please show me where I'm wrong. I'm obviously
> not going to make progress on LFS until I figure this
> out.
Something else I just realized...Since, as Firerat pointed out, you must have
built binutils to get to GCC, there must be some kind of other
misunderstanding. Maybe it's this:
In 5.5.1, where it starts to give you literal instructions:
$ tar -jxf ../mpfr-3.1.0.tar.bz2
$ mv -v mpfr-3.1.0 mpfr
$ tar -jxf ../gmp-5.0.2.tar.bz2
$ mv -v gmp-5.0.2 gmp
$ tar -zxf ../mpc-0.9.tar.gz
$ mv -v mpc-0.9 mpc
It's important to realize that the GENERAL COMPILATION directions in 5.3 DO NOT
APPLY to each of mpfr, gmp, or mpc. Section 5.5 is about GCC only, and the
implicit directions in 5.3 apply ONLY for the GCC package.
Do not assume that you need to follow any implicit directions for "subpackages"
once you are following the literal instructions in any particular package.
Do the implied step once for GCC (untar, descend into), and just follow the
instructions in 5.5.1 explicitly (without further assumptions to take other
implied actions) until you're done with 5.5.
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