Jath Palasubramaniam wrote these words on 07/21/05 18:35 CST: > I think there is an error in the second-last instruction. It says: > > > Some packages expect the C preprocessor to be installed in the /lib > directory. To support those packages, create this symlink: > > ln -s ../usr/bin/cpp /lib
This syntax for the ln command is correct. Please review the man page for the ln command (there's some helpful stuff there, I'm not trying to be a smart-aleck). The current directory has no bearing on the ln command. The ../usr/bin/cpp is relative to the /lib directory in the command above. So essentially, the command is saying to create a link called /lib/cpp that is relative to the /lib directory. Relative to the /lib directory means that pointing to ../usr/bin/cpp is exactly right! > Chapter 2.4 Mounting the New Partition > > This is more of a suggestion than an error, but I may as well put it in > here. > > In the previous chapter you described the procedure for making a new > swap partition if the user wants to. I thought that it may be a good > idea to place something like the following near the end of this chapter: > > < If you have created a new swap partition in the previous chapter > called '/dev/yyy', activate for use by issueing the command: > < swapon /dev/yyy I'm not sure about this. The host swap will be used until you exit the chroot and reboot. At this point (I am going on memory and didn't look at the book), after rebooting the new swap will be used because the instructions for creating your fstab tab file show to make an entry for the newly created swap device. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 18:31:00 up 110 days, 18:04, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.08, 0.03 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
