Installation of Binutils error

jwsawyer · 01-03-2008, 02:13 PM

lfs:~$ mkdir -v ../binutils-build
mkdir: cannot create directory `../binutils-build': Permission denied

I followed all the directions up to this point and had no problems.

Acron_0248 · 01-03-2008, 02:47 PM

Hi,

I think that you missed the part where it says that the books assumes that you enter the source directory after decompress something, let me clarify that:

Code:

# This is what the book hopes you do everytime
tar -xvf package-1.2.tar.gz
cd package-1.2

And this is important because the if you've followed every instruction of the book, you should have a tools directory owned by the user you use to work with lfs but the same user doesn't own the root tree. So, let say you have this:

Code:

/media/lfs/tools

And 'tools' is owned by lfsuser (is an example), but 'lfs' is not owned by the same user, so, if you do this:

Code:

[root@localhost:/media/lfs/tools]: tar -xvf package-1.2.tar.gz
#and then you do this:
[root@localhost:/media/lfs/tools]: mkdir ../package-build

You'll get the permission denied error because your telling the system that it has to create the directory above the current directory, that with the above examples will be /media/lfs and not /media/lfs/tools where it should be.

So, this is what you have to do:

Code:

[root@localhost:/media/lfs/tools]: tar -xvf binutils-version.tar.gz
[root@localhost:/media/lfs/tools]: cd binutils-version
[root@localhost:/media/lfs/tools/binutils-version]: mkdir ../binutils-build

Change 'version' with the version of the package

Regards

jwsawyer · 01-03-2008, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Acron_0248

Hi,

I think that you missed the part where it says that the books assumes that you enter the source directory after decompress something, let me clarify that:

Code:

# This is what the book hopes you do everytime
tar -xvf package-1.2.tar.gz
cd package-1.2

And this is important because the if you've followed every instruction of the book, you should have a tools directory owned by the user you use to work with lfs but the same user doesn't own the root tree. So, let say you have this:

Code:

/media/lfs/tools

And 'tools' is owned by lfsuser (is an example), but 'lfs' is not owned by the same user, so, if you do this:

Code:

[root@localhost:/media/lfs/tools]: tar -xvf package-1.2.tar.gz
#and then you do this:
[root@localhost:/media/lfs/tools]: mkdir ../package-build

You'll get the permission denied error because your telling the system that it has to create the directory above the current directory, that with the above examples will be /media/lfs and not /media/lfs/tools where it should be.

So, this is what you have to do:

Code:

[root@localhost:/media/lfs/tools]: tar -xvf binutils-version.tar.gz
[root@localhost:/media/lfs/tools]: cd binutils-version
[root@localhost:/media/lfs/tools/binutils-version]: mkdir ../binutils-build

Change 'version' with the version of the package

Regards

It gives me an error message saying no such file or directory. The file is binutils-2.17.tar.bz2

I used tar xzvf instead of -xvf since it was bz2

lfs:~$ tar xzvf binutils-2.17.tar.bz2
tar: binutils-2.17.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

gilead · 01-03-2008, 03:34 PM

You're in the lfs directory (your prompt shows lfs as the current directory), instead of the tools directory. Can you try this:

Code:

cd tools
tar -xjf binutils-2.17.tar.bz2
or
tar -xjvf binutils-2.17.tar.bz2

Then you'd use the steps that Acron_0248 describes:

Code:

cd binutils-2.17
mkdir ../binutils-build

jwsawyer · 01-03-2008, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gilead

You're in the lfs directory (your prompt shows lfs as the current directory), instead of the tools directory. Can you try this:

Code:

cd tools
tar -xjf binutils-2.17.tar.bz2
or
tar -xjvf binutils-2.17.tar.bz2

Then you'd use the steps that Acron_0248 describes:

Code:

cd binutils-2.17
mkdir ../binutils-build

Got past this. I'm on the next step with a new error. LOL

lfs:/mnt/lfs/binutils-build$ CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../binutils-2.17/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-werror
bash: ../binutils-2.17/configure: No such file or directory

gilead · 01-03-2008, 04:11 PM

The two things are related. You have created /mnt/lfs/binutils-build instead of /mnt/lfs/tools/binutils-build so the command you're running can't find /mnt/lfs/tools/binutils-2.17. If you don't have a /mnt/lfs/tools/binutils-2.17 directory then something has gone wrong and you may have missed a step from the docs.

Acron_0248 · 01-03-2008, 06:15 PM

Use this:

Code:

CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../tools/binutils-2.17/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-werror

You should pay more attention to directory paths while you read the book and read (and understand) the commands you're using, I'm not saying this to annoy you, but is true, the errors you're having are because you're not paying attention to directory paths

Regards