<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">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.<br><div> </div>Anthony Drake, Software Engineer, RAM team<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Anthony Drake <agmotorsvc@verizon.net><br>To: CLFS Support <clfs-support@lists.cross-lfs.org><br>Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:36:36 AM<br>Subject: [Clfs-support] link to bash, CLFS book CLFS-TRUNK-SVN-20080719/ppcCLFS-TRUNK-SVN-20080719/ppc<br><br>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Good morning. In section 7.3 of book CLFS-TRUNK-SVN-20080719/ppc<br><br>the command 'ln -sv bash ${CLFS}/bin/sh' fails to find bash (first arg), as did a similar command (<span style="font-family: monospace;">"</span>ln -sv bash /tools/bin/sh") in section 6.6.1.<br><br>It's hard to tell which bash is being assigned.<br><br>Is the path to bash implied by the second argument, which is an explicit path and filename?<br><br>I note that the other commands in this section
have explicit pathnames.<br><br>Can someone please clarify?<br><br>PS build system is <span style="font-family: monospace;">Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)</span><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>