Installation of binutils....can't mkdir...../binutils-build

hmonster · 08-17-2004, 02:09 PM

Hey all
trouble at first command of chapter 5
Have followed the book all the way, w/ a prompt of
lfs:~$
pwd= /home/lfs
error= mkdir: cannot create directory '../binutils-build': Permission denied
last completed command was source ~/.bash_profile
way to early to be screwing up!

ps just noticed that /home/lfs is on host system...if that right?

Cerbere · 08-18-2004, 03:46 AM

From Chapter 5 Introduction:

Quote:

The build instructions assume that you are using the bash shell. There is also a general expectation that you have already unpacked the sources for a package and have performed a cd into the unpacked source directory before issuing the build commands.

For each of the sections, you must first extract the package and cd into the directory that is created. So you should be in /home/lfs/binutils-### when you issue the 'mkdir ../binutils-build' command.

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ps just noticed that /home/lfs is on host system...if that right?

That depends on the value of $LFS. If you follow the book, then $LFS=/mnt/lfs, so having /home/lfs on the host system (partition) is no problem. If you're going out on your own and have set $LFS=/home/lfs, then this should be the mount point for your new partition. Read back through Chap.3 'Mounting the New Partition'.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

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hmonster · 08-18-2004, 03:30 PM

Thanks for a little clarity,

>>For each of the sections, you must first extract the package and cd into the directory that is created. So you should be in /home/lfs/binutils-### when you >issue the 'mkdir ../binutils-build' command.

Since I got an error about permissions in /home/lfs on my host, and I figured I was in the wrong place anyway, I went to /mnt/lfs/sources (where i had DL'd the sources, I made directories off there. (still am not sure if I should of untar'd from /mnt/lfs/sources, as your responce suggests, or untar into the directories the book said to make, ie ../binutils-build, ../gcc-build, and so on.) which is what I did.

>>That depends on the value of $LFS. If you follow the book, then $LFS=/mnt/lfs, so having /home/lfs on the host system (partition) is no problem. If you're going >out on your own and have set $LFS=/home/lfs, then this should be the mount point for your new partition. Read back through Chap.3 'Mounting the New >Partition'.

I may have done an 'export $LFS=/mnt/lfs', which I see now should of been 'export LFS=/mnt/lfs', wherein may lie the problem.

At Part II: Preparing the build, it read," you are expected to have already unpacked it (explained shortly) as user lfs." I still of yet haven't seen the 'explained shortly' part, so having some familarity with GNU/OS, tried to read the authors mind, I was reading from 5.1.1, but went back to 5.0 which clarified things a little,
and am going back further.

thanks for your time

Cerbere · 08-19-2004, 03:42 AM

You're a little closer, but just shy of the mark. You do want to extract the packages within /mnt/lfs/sources and then cd to the directory that this extraction will create, namely: /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.14.

That is where you execute the command 'mkdir ../binutils-build' which will create /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build.

Then the next command is 'cd ../binutils-build', so you should then be in /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build which is where you run the configure, make, and make install, etc.

Notice that the actual configure command is:
../binutils-2.14/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls

Since you are executing this from within /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build, this is the same as:
/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.14/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls

The /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build directory is where the actual build will take place, but it will be building from the source which you extracted to /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.14.

I hope this makes things clearer. Sometimes when I finish an explanation, even I'm more confused than when I began :-)

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

hmonster · 08-19-2004, 11:05 AM

Thanks,
Sometimes I really doubt my reading comprehension skills, your explaination makes it more than clear.

>> You do want to extract the packages within /mnt/lfs/sources and then cd to the directory that this extraction will create, namely: /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.14.
>>That is where you execute the command 'mkdir ../binutils-build' which will create /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build.
>>Then the next command is 'cd ../binutils-build', so you should then be in /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build which is where you run the configure, make, and make install, etc.

kjordan · 08-21-2004, 04:51 PM

I'm actually not sure they say which directory to be in when you execute that. I guess they assume you know to be in the extracted folder.

Cerbere · 08-22-2004, 04:07 AM

Like I said before,

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Originally posted by Cerbere
From Chapter 5 Introduction:

Quote:

The build instructions assume that you are using the bash shell. There is also a general expectation that you have already unpacked the sources for a package and have performed a cd into the unpacked source directory before issuing the build commands.

That's from LFS Book 5.0.

In 5.1.1, Chapter 5 Introduction:

Quote:

Before issuing the build instructions for a package, you are expected to have already unpacked it (explained shortly) as user lfs, and to have performed a cd into the created directory. The build instructions assume that you are using the bash shell.

Don't really know why so many people miss this.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere