On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:59:00PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > The usual way to look at what gets installed is to run 'make > DESTDIR=/path/to/somewhere install [ optional args ]' - once you get > into DESTDIR installs for looking at what is installed you will find > some packages use other variables (often INSTALLROOT or something > like that) - if shadow is such a package,then running *as a user* > will fail. So try it as a user, to a directory which that user can > write to. > OK, so you can't try a DESTDIR install as a normal user because you are root and 'su' doesn't exist. Build outside the new system as user lfs and do a DESTDIR, e.g. to /home/lfs/somewhere or /tmp/somewhere. The same for su from old coreutils (my notes show that I had to build all of coreutils to get su linked - there might be a shorter series of commands - but NOT which old version of coreutils last contained 'su'.
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