Abort build if building from the root directory (/) as this causes misc build failures.

Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/helpers/lh_build b/helpers/lh_build
index 7a8355841..835a4b77f 100755
--- a/helpers/lh_build
+++ b/helpers/lh_build
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ then
 	Echo_warning "No config/ directory; using defaults for all options"
 fi
 
+if [ "$(pwd)" = "/" ]
+then
+	Echo_error "Cannot build live image from the root directory (/)"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
 # Bootstrapping system
 lh_bootstrap ${*}