On Jan 17, 2012 1:30 PM, "Andrew Benton" <b3n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:42:35 -0500 > Dave H <thegenrl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello I'm stuck at a point and I really don't know what's wrong. Here is > > my situation. > > > > Gathered from the list of All Packages list page 3.2, it states Autoconf > > (2.68) and M4 (1.4.16) > > > > So I downloaded, extracted, M4 (1.4.16) and did the following while in the > > directory "$LFS/sources/m4-1.4.16": > > > > ./configure (as user lfs) > > make (as user lfs) > > sudo make install (as root) > > This is very wrong. In chapter 5 run make install as user lfs. If you > do it as root you run the risk of destroying your host system. Also, > root does not have the same environment variables set as the user lfs > so the commands will not be executed in the same way if they are run by > root. > Wrong! They were installing the required version of M4 to the host
> > question: should /usr/local/bin be in my path variable for user lfs? > > No > Wrong, if the build requires things installed in /usr/local then it needs to be in the path > > currently $PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin. > > question: should i be ./configure,make,make install all as root? > > No. Do all of chapter 5 as the user lfs. > That is correct well apart from changing ownership which must be done as root
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