Clarification request on the instructions for chapter 5.9 binutils pass 2

engineer · 12-17-2012, 08:42 PM

Hi again all.

Can someone please help me understand the instructions a bit better in this section? All the previous sections up to this point have been completed successfully.

The instructions say to create a separate build directory again, called binutils-build. There were no instructions (AFAIK) to remove the previous binutils-build directory created during pass 1, so my directory still exists in the $LFS/sources folder.

So, do I remove the first binutils-build directory before proceeding? Using the note on general installation instructions, I assumed that the instructions wanted me to untar the package, cd into $LFS/sources/binutils-2.22 (the directory created after untarring) and then execute the command to create a new binutils-build folder, which I cannot do at this point, since one already exists. I did not untar the package again, since I had already untarred it, but I did switch to the sources directory before trying to run the command to create the binutils-build directory a second time.

What am I missing?

TobiSGD · 12-17-2012, 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by engineer

There were no instructions (AFAIK) to remove the previous binutils-build directory created during pass 1, so my directory still exists in the $LFS/sources folder.

So, do I remove the first binutils-build directory before proceeding?

Yes, you do remove the build directory. While not stated in every chapter, actually there are instructions to remove that directory:
Chapter 5.3:

Quote:

Important
To re-emphasize the build process:

Place all the sources and patches in a directory that will be accessible from the chroot environment such as /mnt/lfs/sources/. Do not put sources in /mnt/lfs/tools/.
Change to the sources directory.
For each package:
Using the tar program, extract the package to be built. In Chapter 5, ensure you are the lfs user when extracting the package.
Change to the directory created when the package was extracted.
Follow the book's instructions for building the package.
Change back to the sources directory.
Delete the extracted source directory and any <package>-build directories that were created in the build process unless instructed otherwise.

engineer · 12-17-2012, 09:17 PM

That was a bone-headed oversight.

Thanks for the clarification. I think I was so excited/surprised that configuring and building the binaries actually worked, I forgot to read the rest of the steps after that...