On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:49 PM, J. Greenlees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > bash - Not needed for actual building, but glibc's ldd and tzselect > > need either bash or ksh to work. The values will be substituted at > > configure time. I don't know what happens without them, and it's > > probably not that important in Ch. 5 if those utilities aren't there. > > However, we create the LFS user with /bin/bash as the login shell, and > > this can't be substituted as is because we set up the environment > > through the bash initialization files. > > > > Yet another minor issue with PCLinuxOS as a build environment, the > environment set up following the book is not a login shell. > [ only mentioning it as a f.w.i.w. ]
Sure it is. You switch to the lfs user with `su - lfs'. That creates a login shell using the shell listed in the passwd database. If PCLinuxOS' su doesn't follow that trend, I don't know if there's a lot we can do about that. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
