Hi,

I am getting an error message when doing the make install of binutils pass 1in chapter5.
The message is as follows

lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build$ make install
/bin/sh ../binutils-2.14/mkinstalldirs /tools /tools
make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/intl'
if test "@PACKAGE@" = "gettext" \
&& test '' = 'intl-compat.o'; then \
if test -r ../../binutils-2.14/intl/../../mkinstalldirs; then \
../../binutils-2.14/intl/../../mkinstalldirs /tools/lib /tools/include; \
else \
../../binutils-2.14/intl/mkinstalldirs /tools/lib /tools/include; \
fi; \
/bin/sh /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.14/install-sh -c -m 644 intlh.inst /tools/include/libintl.h; \
/bin/sh /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.14/install-sh -c -m 644 libintl.a /tools/lib/libintl.a; \
else \
: ; \
fi
if test "@PACKAGE@" = "gettext"; then \
if test -r ../../binutils-2.14/intl/../../mkinstalldirs; then \
../../binutils-2.14/intl/../../mkinstalldirs /tools/share/gettext/intl; \
else \
../../binutils-2.14/intl/mkinstalldirs /tools/share/gettext/intl; \
fi; \
/bin/sh /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.14/install-sh -c -m 644 VERSION /tools/share/gettext/intl/VERSION; \
dists="ChangeLog Makefile.in linux-msg.sed po2tbl.sed.in xopen-msg.sed gettext.h gettextP.h hash-string.h libgettext.h loadinfo.h bindtextdom.c dcgettext.c dgettext.c gettext.c finddomain.c loadmsgcat.c localealias.c textdomain.c l10nflist.c explodename.c intl-compat.c cat-compat.c"; \
for file in $dists; do \
/bin/sh /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.14/install-sh -c -m 644 ../../binutils-2.14/intl/$file /tools/share/gettext/intl/$file; \
done; \
else \
: ; \
fi
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/intl'
make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/libiberty'
make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/libiberty/testsuite'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/libiberty/testsuite'
/bin/sh ../../binutils-2.14/libiberty/../mkinstalldirs /tools/lib
/bin/sh /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.14/install-sh -c -m 644 libiberty.a /tools/lib/libiberty.an
cp: cannot create regular file `/tools/lib/#inst.26448#': Permission denied
make[1]: *** [install_to_libdir] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/libiberty'
make: *** [install-libiberty] Error 2

Just to be certain I was doing it right I redid everything up to this point and got the exact same message.
I am logged in as lfs when I do this. Do I need to be root?
Thanks for any pointers.
It could be the fact that it's 2am....
but I don't think so.

"cp: cannot create regular file `/tools/lib/#inst.26448#': Permission denied"

You should check the permissions on /tool and /tool/lib.

"I am logged in as lfs when I do this. Do I need to be root?"

Running as root should get you past this problem. But if the basic problem is that the permissions are wrong then you will probably run into future problems with the permissions.

------------------------
Steve Stites

Thanks, I'll check this when I get back to my machine.

Somewhere I have missed something, It was trying to write to /tools in the root filesystem. Back to the beginning with a higher attention to detail I think.

I had exactly the same error.

$LFS/tools is owned by user lfs, but for some reason its subdirectories are owned by "1001", which is apparently the guest user. I'm using Red Hat 9 as host system here - I didn't have this problem under Debian Sarge (I did have a different problem, but that's another story) .

As root, I did

cd $LFS/tools
chown -R lfs *

This makes the lfs user owner of everything in $LFS/tools (-R works recursively for all subdirectories and their contents etc).

Now change user back to lfs, and do the make install again - it worked for me.

Hi maerong,

Thanks for the reply, but that wasn't the problem for me. I had either forgotten the /mnt/lfs/tools symlink or otherwise lost it or broke it. I'm not sure which. Once that was fixed all went well.