Tag: Rabbits
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Reflections and determination to continue
LFS is really hard and really isn’t for newbs. I freely admit that I’m the newbiest of newbs. But I met the stated absolute minimum LFS requirement (p. x in the PDF manual) of being able to use basic command line stuff. The online FAQ also says: Anybody who has a couple of months experience…
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$LFS/sources rabbit hole
So what should the permissions be for /sources at the end of Chapter 4? The manual would seem to be leaving /sources as root:root. Instances of Google AI Mode were divided, but some of them argued forcefully that to compile by user lfs, then /sources had to be lfs:lfs and to change it to that…
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For Loop from Hell
The next part of LFS Ch. 4.2, creating a limited directory layout. Descent into Hell The manual says: As root, for i in in lib sbin; do ln -sv usr/$i $LFS/$i done Google AI Mode explained that the “usr” in this code is relative to $LFS and therefore will be in $LFS and not in…