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1703	6.1.1 - IMPORTANT BOOK ENHANCEMENT (using 6.1.3 live-cd)	anonymous	lfs-book@…	"First time install (LFS newbie)

LFS-BOOK-6.1.1-HTML/chapter06/readjusting.html does indeed mention:

'''Remove the Binutils source and build directories now.'''

But it is easy to overlook this because other sections in the page are marked much more clearly so that this important line (not even marked BOLD) drownes in the rest of the important messages of the book.

Of course I should have had more trust in you people and should have believed that I had overlooked something, But I did ! and apparently I overlooked it again and again.

So I deleted binutils build directories just before doing the final binutils build, because that seems to make the most sense (so AFTER the above chapter was completed !)

Later I had problems with testsuites, gcc and such and ncursus that needs libstdc++ did not even compile.

So I reverted back to the above mentioned chapter (I READ EVERY LETTER) and continued from:

'Next, amend the GCC specs file so that it points to the new dynamic linker. A perl command accomplishes this:'

After that, I repeated all steps upto and including installing ncurses,

During that proces, all errors were gone in binutils, glibc and gcc testsuite.
(libstdc++ was now installed correctly)

So I suppose that removing the build directories in above mentioned section is crucial to a stable build.

'''Therefore I suggest to mark the removal of binutils build directories VERY clearly.
so that no other newbies will overlook that remark.'''

regards,
Jos de Mooij

"	enhancement	closed	high	6.2	Book	6.1.1	critical	fixed