On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 03:54:40PM -0800, JIA Pei wrote:
> 
> However, I happened to notice that by using account "lfs", I'm not able to
> do "*make install*" and got a lot of "*Permission denied*" error messages.
> The potential solutions is
> 1) either using "*sudo make install*"

 This is very dangerous - if you mistype the command you can damage
the host system.  By installing as user lfs you are deliberately
restricted for where you can install files in chapter 5.

> 2) or using "*chown lfs:lfs /tools*"
> 
> 1) works fine for me, but 2) doesn't change /tools from *root:root* to *
> lfs:lfs* .
> 
> I'm just wondering how LFS developers manage to solve this problem?
> 
 Section 4.3 :

chown -v lfs $LFS/tools

 I suppose you need to chown /tools/* if you want to do it
differently : /tools is a symlink at this stage.

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