On 13 March 2012 12:42, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/13/2012 07:25 AM, David Paterson wrote: > >> Now create a directory to build in >> >> $ mkdir bob >> $ cd bob >> $ pwd >> /home/davidp/alice/bob >> >> $ ls >> bob gcc-4.6.2 > > > Slight error here... that 'ls' should be 'ls ..', or the output will be > empty. I'd just noticed that myself :-) Too much copying and pasting and rearranging the message to make it as clear and simple as possible, and of course something's bound to go wrong... Cheers, David P.