Hi everyone, I just started to build (trying to build) a LFS 7.3 Operating System, I had a problem during the binutils, there what I done:

1) in the "sources" directory I extracted the package
2) I typed ../binutils-2.23.1/configure and all gone good
3) I typed (in the same directory): prefix=/tools

and it returns "prefix=/tools: no such file or directory", and is the same thing for the next instructions:

--with-sysroot=$LFS
--with-lib-path=/tools/lib
--target=$LFS_TGT
--disable-nls
--disable-werror

do you know what I have to do to fix that?

Hi and welcome to LQ!

First of all: Why are you building 7.3 and not the latest stable 7.4?

About your problem: You misinterpret the command. It is one command, not multiple:The above is one command, which could also be written as (but isn't very human readable):You need to follow the book to the letter and not skip any parts of the book. Next time you need help please also include the following information:
- host on which LFS is build,
- output of version-check.sh script,
- chapter and step you are stuck,
- error including a few lines before it.
1.5 help

BTW: I'm going to ask a moderator to move this to the LFS subforum here at LQ.

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Thank You druuna, very simple and helpful.
Tell me one last thing, what changes between 7.3 and 7.4? the output operating system will be the same or not?
another time Thanks :-)

They are basically the same if you look at how things are done, the main difference being newer (stable) versions of packages. Have a look here: LFS News

In general people build the latest stable version unless they have a good reason not to. The end result, if all goes well, will be a stable minimal Linux system build from scratch. This is true for both versions 7.3 and 7.4

If you continue to build 7.3 do tell us that when you ask for help. Some of the details are being done differently and we need to know the exact version in order to give you the correct advise.

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