[Clfs-support] link to bash, CLFS book CLFS-TRUNK-SVN-20080719/ppcCLFS-TRUNK-SVN-20080719/ppc

[Anthony Drake]

My guess is that what is intended is to create a symbolic link named ${CLFS}/bin/sh that points to ${CLFS}/bin/bash, but what the command syntax indicates is that the link would point to relative path ./bash at command time, which seems ambiguous.

 Anthony Drake, Software Engineer, RAM team



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Subject: [Clfs-support] link to bash, CLFS book CLFS-TRUNK-SVN-20080719/ppcCLFS-TRUNK-SVN-20080719/ppc


Good morning.  In section 7.3 of book CLFS-TRUNK-SVN-20080719/ppc

the command  'ln -sv bash ${CLFS}/bin/sh' fails to find bash (first arg), as did a similar command ("ln -sv bash /tools/bin/sh") in section 6.6.1.

It's hard to tell which bash is being assigned.

Is the path to bash implied by the second argument, which is an explicit path and filename?

I note that the other commands in this section have explicit pathnames.

Can someone please clarify?

PS build system is  Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
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