Chapter 5.4 Binutils

Here is where I encountered the distinction between sources directory and package sources. The word sources was used in two different contexts. Everything had to be in the $LFS/sources directory. This means the downloaded compressed files. I decided to unpack them one by one, at need. My first suspicion that something was going wrong was the mixture of file ownership in the tools directory (varied between roor and lfs). This is because I was doing "make install" as root. I started over again. Another problem I have is interpreting the text which scrolls by during the configure, make and make install. Words such as "cannot find" cause me alarm. But, upon more reading, I found someone who said: If there is an error, you will know about it at the end. After the "make install" which is the step where everything needed is placed in the $LFS/tools directory. That's why I can safely delete the binutils-source and binutils-2.2.0 directories. I keep the compressed file in case I have to re-do the process.