On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 01:32:37PM -0400, Chris Staub wrote: > On 06/15/2015 12:47 PM, Sandeep Singh wrote: > >well on page 5.5 it says > > > >The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside of the source > >directory in a dedicated build directory: > > > >mkdir -v ../gcc-build cd ../gcc-build > > > >that is the reason I created the gcc-build directory outside of the source > >directory. > > > >So what you are saying is to create a gcc-build directory with in the source > >directory. > > > > > >best regards > > No, I ma saying to follow the instructions given in the book. As stated on > page 5.3: > > "For each package: > > Using the tar program, extract the package to be built. In Chapter 5, > ensure you are the lfs user when extracting the package. > > Change to the directory created when the package was extracted. > > Follow the book's instructions for building the package." > > Therefore, if you are following what the book says to do, you will already > be in gcc's source dir before doing anything on that page, including the > creation of gcc-build.
True, and for a first-time, building in /mnt/lfs/sources (and then building blfs in /sources) is _usually_ the best way to go, because the book's instructions all assume that. But in practice you can use any directory which exists within /mnt/lfs and is writable by the lfs user - in practice, that means creating a directory and chown'ing it : /mnt/lfs itself is not writable until you become root, and it is not a good place to scatter things (unless you _like_ a lot of junk in '/' after you have chrooted). But for the gcc problem, I would have thought 5.1.0 would be able to build a 4.9.2 system, even though we do not usually try building an older system from a newer one : on my latest svn system I built 4.9.2 in the completed system to use for gst-plugins-bad. So, I suspect another error - check your lfs user's command history. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
