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. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page