I am in the 3rd section of chapter 5 trying to compile binutils-2.14.
I have followed everything word for word untill this point (I think). I am logged in as the user 'lfs' and have unpacked binutils-2.14 into $LFS/sources/. I created a build directory for binutils ( $LFS/sources/binutils-build/ ) and cd into it. Then I make the command...
and I get an error saying "bash: ../binutils-2.14/configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied" Does this mean I am supposed to compile binutils as root? I was under the impression that creating the user 'lfs' was so I didnt have to do everything as root.

Any ideas?

this usually means you did not set your $PATH

export LFS=/LFS

or whatever PATH LFS is on your box

<edit/> also make sure that your lfs user has permissions to
the /LFS/tools directory.........

Ok, I made sure $LFS is setAnd I checked the permissions on $LFS/tools/ which are drwxr-xr-x.
But I did notice that the group was 'root'. Should I change it to 'users' ?

Thanks for the speedy response!

Nevermind, I got it. I had mounted with too restrictive permissions. Unmounting and re-mounting solved the problem.

Thanks for the help!

Im having the same problem. Trying to configure gives:

bash: ../binutils-2.14/configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied

To see if it was a permission problem i tried it as root and i got the same error. If i copy the binutils .tar.gz to, for example, my /root directory, extract it and run configure, it works.
If i cd to the binutils directory on /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.14 and run configure it fails with the same error.

Ive tried all of the suggestions above, could someone help?

Thanks.

Sorted. It was a problem with fstab.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor.../msg04453.html

Thanks.