On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 01:32:27PM -0800, Jerry Trymander wrote: > The problem is that in my case, for instance, the mpfr dir already exists. So > my question is: is the mpfr left as a result of the build process failure at > some previous step? > If not, am I suppose to delete the mptr dir or should it be left as it is? > The same problem occurs with a number of xxx-build dirs. > Otherwise, despite the fact that, so far, I cannot build the LFS, the book is > excellent.
Always delete the directories (souce as well as any build dir) before you build a package in a later stage. Deleting them after completing the package's install is best, providing you remembered to do everything in the install. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page