On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 08:32 -0700, Richard Caldwell wrote: > Hi, > book version 6.0 chapter 5.29. After installing bash3.0 the following > command is issued: > ln -s bash /tools/bin/sh > but immediately after this the bash-3.0 directory is removed! What's the > point in > this symlink.? As I understand, it creates a link called '/tools/bin/sh' that > points > to bash in the current directory which is subsequently removed. After the > bash > directory is removed, what does the link point to? > > RC
It's pointing to the bash in /bin. The target's path is relative to the link's directory, unless you include the absolute path of the target. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
