What should be in the root filesystem? command line errors

[Xylopyrographer]

Hi. Referencing MELP, 3rd ed, Chapter 5, What should be in the root filesystem?, page 133

The bottom part of the page shows a sequence of commands to copy the *.so* files into the ~/rootfs/bin directory. The commands as given are in error as they copy the target file to a file called ~/rootfs/lib instead of creating a copy of the file in the intended directory.

Had to:

• start from ~/rootfs
• create the lib directory
• for each cp -a... line, replace lib with ./lib/, like:

  cd ~/rootfs && mkdir ./lib/
  $ cp -a $SYSROOT/lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 ./lib/
  .
  .
  .

  Above the "Tip" box there is also the line: "Repeat this procedure for each program." It's a bit unclear what this is referring. Does it mean to copy the files (from the set of commands preceding the statement) to the ~/rootfs/bin directory? If so we just did that so the statement is not needed?

Please note as well issue #71 also related to Chapter 5.

Thanks.

[vidhishapackt]

@fvasquez can you help with this ?

[fvasquez]

@vidhishapackt I have already been in contact with the reader regarding this and various other issues they reported. This issue is closely related to issue #70 which I've already addressed. I will respond when I have the specific steps to add to the errata to remedy this issue.