Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread Dan McGhee
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: Step 4 (cd $LFS/tools) is unnecessary and has no bearing on the link creation. You could be in *any* directory when it is executed. In effect the command states. Take the last element of the first parameter and use it as the name for the symlink in the second parameter.

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 16:37 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > Let's say for sake of argument I've started in my home directory. Now > let me ask if this sequence of code is correct to get to putting the > symlink in the right place. > > # su > # echo $LFS > /mnt/lfs > # mkdir $LFS/tools > # cd $LFS/to

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread Dan McGhee
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:32 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: is given. I understand the syntax--and I even read the FAQ . My question is in the location of the link. I don't want my distro to think that everything is mounted in $LFS/tools. The book is usually righ

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread Dan McGhee
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:32 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: is given. I understand the syntax--and I even read the FAQ . My question is in the location of the link. I don't want my distro to think that everything is mounted in $LFS/tools. The book is usually righ

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 21:09 +, Matthew Burgess wrote: > S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > > The book is usually right. > > *usually*? :) I'd prefer that to be "always" :) Bug reports welcome of > course, if your conscience can't bring you to write the latter! > > Yours somewhat jokingly, > > M

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: The book is usually right. *usually*? :) I'd prefer that to be "always" :) Bug reports welcome of course, if your conscience can't bring you to write the latter! Yours somewhat jokingly, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www

Re: Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:32 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > > > is given. I understand the syntax--and I even read the FAQ . My > question is in the location of the link. I don't want my distro to > think that everything is mounted in $LFS/tools. > The book is usually right. Assuming that LFS

Location of Symlink for $LFS/tools

2005-03-18 Thread Dan McGhee
First of all let me say how great I think LFS is. I'm pretty disgusted with distros right now. Thanks for the effort. As my knowlege and skill increase (I hope), I'd like to contribute. But for now, I must just build. I'm using Version 6.0. In 4.2 "Creating the $LFS/tools Directory," the