On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, but you have three meaningless cp commands in your script.  Part of
>> the LFS goals is to teach how to visualize what the commands are doing.
>> You are not doing that yet.  Why do you think the cp commands are needed?
>> They are not in the book.
>>
>
> But the book says to 'Unpack each package into the GCC source directory' so
>  I copy the files into the  gcc source directory and unpack them.
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The ../ tells it to use the package 1 dir up.  You are just making extra
copies that don't even get extracted.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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A: Top-posting.
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