So obviously I am new here so i wont use the standard greeting of 'newb question'... here is the issue:

upon exec the command: make tooldir=/usr

i receive the following error from command:
ar rc ./libiberty.a \ ./'multiple .o files'


error:
ar: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.16.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I can see that the issue is that the script cannot find the file. However i do not know where this file is or how to corrent the issue. i have looked in /usr/lib and the only thing close is libiberty.an.

What should i do? or where can i find the information to correct this issue? I am on chapter 6 (Installing basic system software) and do not want to start over.

TIA.

Charles

well i found this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...oblems-473481/

and it seems as though they had the EXACT same issue as I. I am going to restart at chapter 6.1 and perhaps that shall fix it. Sorry for the repeat thread.

so i was able to get around the errors (as the appeared) by issuing the following command before running the make again:

cd /tools/lib
cp libiberty.a /sources/lfs-sources/binutils-build/libiberty
cd /sources/lfs-sources/binutils-build/
make tooldir=/usr


you will also have the same issue with:
libbfd.la
libopcodes.la

again just copy those files to the appropriate build directory:
libbfd.la --> binutils-build/bfd
libopcodes.la --> binutils-build/opcodes


However... the check failed... thus so did the install...
Starting over at 6.1