Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:59:00PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> The usual way to look at what gets installed is to run 'make >> DESTDIR=/path/to/somewhere install [ optional args ]' - once you get >> into DESTDIR installs for looking at what is installed you will find >> some packages use other variables (often INSTALLROOT or something >> like that) - if shadow is such a package,then running *as a user* >> will fail. So try it as a user, to a directory which that user can >> write to. >> > OK, so you can't try a DESTDIR install as a normal user because you > are root and 'su' doesn't exist. Build outside the new system as > user lfs and do a DESTDIR, e.g. to /home/lfs/somewhere or > /tmp/somewhere. The same for su from old coreutils (my notes show > that I had to build all of coreutils to get su linked - there might > be a shorter series of commands - but NOT which old version of > coreutils last contained 'su'.
If the only thing needed is su, then I'd build shadow with: ./configure && make && cp src/su /tools/bin It doesn't need to be suid since it's run by root. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
