Philippe Delavalade wrote: > Le jeudi 06 décembre à 15:48, Alan Lord a écrit : >> martin welsh wrote: >>> I am fumbling through and have now got to chapter 7 but not without some >>> bother with the instructions. >>> Early on you are told that you start by building the tools chain and >>> should start from $LFS/tools. >>> Next - mkdir build file >>> next - cd build file ok so far. >>> Then unpack source (to be built file) in build file. Still ok. >>> Next - possibly a preamble but more to the point ../configure 'the file >>> being built' possibly with qualifiers. >>> >>> This is not ok because ../configure needs to be ./configure. >> Where does it say ../configure? If it does say that anywhere that's a >> typo. > > I don't think so ; for instance, in chapter 6 when installing e2fsprogs, > you have to create a build directory inside the untared directory, > cd in and then you have to issue ../configure ... > > Philippe Delavalade
Thanks Philippe, I had forgotten about that one. "../configure" is used in several places. It isn't used for "most" builds however and the other places where a separate build dir is used IIRC it is built *outside* the source tree, e.g. mkdir ../build_dir Anyway - thanks for setting me (and the OP) straight. Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page