Dan Nicholson wrote: > 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 > And even the LFS Livecd will toss a "Not a login shell, try exit instead" when given a logout. I rarely get more than an hour or two to actually work on a build in one session, so I always wind up having to end a session, or I wouldn't have noticed.
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