[plug] binutils statically linked

[Craig Dyke]

Thanks Russell.

It appears I was a little over zealous in my setup when I added the 
following to fstab

/dev/hdh6 /mnt/lfs xfs defaults,user,noauto 0 2

As I found that the user option has noexec which sought of screwed me.

Thanks again :))

Craig
Russell Steicke wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:21:59PM +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
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>>Hi All
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>>I have recently been wrestling with looking at building an LFS system.
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>>The first package compiled is binutils which sets up some tools such as 
>>ar, ld, ranlib and so on.
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>>After issuing all the following as a normal user:
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>>./configure --prefix=/tools -disable-nls
>>make configure-host
>>make LDFLAGS="-all-static"
>>make install
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>>I am told that :      /tools/bin/ranlib: permission denied
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>>After some investigating, it appears that the tools installed only like 
>>to be run from /usr/bin.
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>>Would someone please confirm if this is correct?
>>If not, please tell me where I have gone wrong?
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>>Craig
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>>PS. I get the same error message if I try to issue:   ld --help      
>>.... this gives ..... /tools/bin/ld : permission denied
>>Also, /tools is owned by the user issuing all commands.
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>If statically linked, they should run from anywhere.  They should
>certainly run in the place you told configure to put them.
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>Firstly, make sure the files are executable.  They should be, the
>linker ensures that (I think, but it could be the gcc wrapper that
>does it).  Do "ls -l /tools/bin".
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>Second thing that could be wrong: is /tools mounted noexec?  "mount"
>will tell you if that's the case.
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>BTW, I've assumed that "make install" actually succeeded, and the
>files are in place.
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