On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 01:22:51PM -0400, Chris Staub wrote: > On 11/02/2013 12:52 PM, Chris Staub wrote: > > dir, which is not what you're supposed to be doing. Go back and read > > page 5.3 very carefully.
Aha! I had misunderstood the instructions! I feel rather foolish as they seem perfectly clear now. Thanks, Chris, It compiles now! > > Further, if you've managed to create $LFS/gcc-build, it means you either > chowned $LFS to the lfs user, or temporarily became root to create > $LFS/gcc-build, neither of which the LFS book says to do. In general, if > you get some kind of permissions error, you should stop and double-check > that you're doing what you're supposed to, rather than forcing root. If > the book is correctly followed, you should be able to do all of Chapter > 5 entirely as the lfs user. Also, if you did chown $LFS, you should > chown it back to root. I'm afraid I did chown $LFS - I will chown it back immediately! Thanks, again, Chris and thanks to everyone who responded so quickly! Cheers, Bernard. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
