Re: Problems compiling Binutils 2.17

[Dave Haywood <tla@oak.selfip.net>]

Phil C wrote:

>> It seems like the configure script is not working.
>> Did you check whether it is executeable or not? ( chmod +x )
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>> Is it in the directory ../binutils-2.12/ ?
>> Why are you installing a system wide libary with sudo and not as root user?
>> Yeti
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> Ill have to check on the permissions. I'm installing with sudo because I use Ubuntu so there is no root login.
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Couple of options I can think of on Ubuntu:

    1) sudo su -

          You now have a root shell to do the install


or:


    2) add a "wheel" group to /etc/group and add your user id to it

         in /etc/pam.d/su uncomment "auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust"

          You can now su without using sudo and without specifying any
password so long as you are a member of the wheel group


Dave.

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