On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 08:59 -0700, Nolan wrote: > Can I change the directory and file ownership to "lfs" with a chown, or > is the fact that the programs were compiled as > "root" have a detrimental effect?
The problem isn't that you're running as root - it's that you found that you needed to run as root. That's a sign that you've done something wrong somewhere in the instructions, since the 'lfs' user should have permission to write to anywhere it *should* try to write to. Now, that could simply be that you've not run the commands giving 'lfs' permission to write to the necessary locations - in which case, running as root was harmless. But it could also be that you've mistyped one of the build steps, and the 'lfs' user is trying to write to locations it *shouldn't* be able to write to - for example, you ran something with --prefix=/usr instead of /tools. In that case, running as root is potentially disastrous, since you might be overwriting files belonging to the host distribution, rendering it unbootable. Simon.
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