mkdir ../binutils-build gives me "Permission Denied"!!!
 

I have been working with lfs for days and cant get past this. When I am logged in as user lfs I cannot mkdir ../binutils-build or any other directory in the book that starts with ../

It tells me "Permission Denied". Is the two dots followed by a forward slash in front of these directories just a typo or am I doing something wrong? Im following the book to the letter and this still stops me cold!

Do you set ownership of $LFS/sources, as advised in chapter 4.3 to user lfs?

You can do this anytime as root with:

chown lfs $LFS/sources

If your sources are not in a subdir ../sources, then:

chown lfs $LFS/

Yup....as I said Im following the book to the letter. I hav'nt missed a thing. As a matter of fact I have started over twice to make absolute sure. I get the same thing every time...when im in user lfs I cannot create these directories.

Thanks for trying, though

When logged in as user lfs what is output of

ls -l in the $LFS dir?

If dirs owned by root maybe your hostsystem changes
the ownership

Or you can try to mkdir in the source dir itself without ../

I had this same issue at first. What I had to do is make sure that I was in the correct directory before I started creating other directories. ex:

after untarring the binutils, cd binutils-2.15.91.0.2. Then mkdir ../binutils-build. Then cd ../binutils-build.

You should be able to continue with the instsall at that point.

It is critical that with all instructions, you are in the directory created after you untar the packages.

Hope this helps.

OK, post your /etc/fstab
maybe your user does not have the proper permissions to access .......

Thanks for all the help guys..but lemme ask this...

Where exactly are you suppose to build the binutils-2.15.91.0.2 source at? Let me be more specific.....

1.) At the beginning 4.2. Creating the $LFS/tools Directory it says, " All programs compiled in Chapter 5 will be installed under $LFS/tools to keep them separate from the programs compiled in Chapter 6."

2.) But, at the beginning of the binutils-2.15.91.0.2 builf chapter it states that, " The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of the source directory in a dedicated build directory"

3.) To make things even more confusing the prefix ../ at the beginning of mkdir ../binutils-build usually refers to the root file tree, which is where bash puts the directory if I give that command while in root mode.

So, do I compile the binutils-2.15.91.0.2 package in /mnt/lfs/tools? Or, do I compile it in /mnt/lfs/binutils-build? It doesnt make much since using mkdir ../binutils-build, then moving the binutils-2.15.91.0.2 package into that file and building it on the host system. My host already has the binutils package on it! It's suppose to be built on the mnt/lfs partition, right???



Another question...............nothing seems to work for me when Im in user lfs mode! So, why cant I just build everything in root mode? Is it absolutley nesseccary to build within the user lfs mode?????

Right
Yes
You were in [/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.15.91.0.2] so absulute of [../binutils-build] is [/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build]
You should compile in [/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build] then install to [/mnt/lfs/tools]
You can make everything in root mode with your own risk ;-)

Good luck!

Guys, thanks for the help. Im half way through the process now and Im loving it!

Hi folks,

I followed
5.4. Binutils-2.15.91.0.2 - Pass 1
http://www.sg.linuxfromscratch.org/l...ils-pass1.html

to install LFS and came to the same problem;

lfs:~$ mkdir ../binutils-build
mkdir: cannot create directory `../binutils-build': Permission denied

(remark: all packages and patches in /mnt/lfs/sources/ )

Whether I should first untar 'binutils-2.15.91.0.2.tar.bz2' with following steps;
lfs:~$ cd /mnt/lfs/sources/
lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources$ tar jxvf binutils-2.15.91.0.2.tar.bz2
lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources$ cd ./binutils-2.15.91.0.2
lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.15.91.0.2$ mkdir ../binutils-build
lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.15.91.0.2$ cd mkdir ../binutils-build

to run
../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/configure --prefix=/tools \
--disable-nls

and afterwards continue to proceed

Please advise. TIA

B.R.
satimis

You were in lfs:~$ so when you mkdir ../binutils-build mean you want to make a directory in users directory (ex: /home) => Permission denied
You should be in $/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-x.x.x before run mkdir ../binutils-build

Cheers,
GH

Hi freegianghu,

Tks for your advice.

If I understand it correctly I must untar/extract 'binutils-x.x.x' in /mnt/lfs/sources/ directory first.

B.R.
satimis

Yes!!! I used to installed packages as below steps:

Hi freegianghu,

Noted with thanks.

An additional question;
There are bundle of package-tarballs and patches in /mnt/lfs/sources. After their extraction, the pcakage-tarballs and their decompressed packages are co-existing in the directory. After building LFS completed is there a simple method to delete all package-tarballs together rather than deleting them manually one-by-one to free HD space.

B.R.
satimis

To delete all extracted directories, run script like: