On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:50:24AM +0800, mobile Parmenides wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am reading stable lfs book of 6.3 version. On page 96, I'm
> puzzled to the following two commands:
>
> ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp /lib
> ln -sv gcc /usr/bin/cc
>
The 'target' of ln -s needn't actually exist, it is just a name. Try,
eg:
$ mkdir test && cd test
$ ln -sv bar foo
'foo' -> 'bar'
$ cat foo
cat: foo: No such file or directory
$ echo "hello" >bar
$ cat foo
hello
Then, RTFM.
HTH,
Scott Swanson
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