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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-boot-createfiles">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="createfiles.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Creating Essential Symlinks</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para os="a">Some programs use hard-wired paths to programs which do not exist
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| 14 | yet. In order to satisfy these programs, create a number of symbolic
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| 15 | links which will be replaced by real files throughout the course of
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| 16 | the next chapter after the software has been installed.</para>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <screen><userinput>ln -sv /tools/bin/{bash,cat,echo,grep,login,passwd,pwd,sleep,stty} ${CLFS}/bin
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| 19 | ln -sv /tools/bin/file ${CLFS}/usr/bin
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| 20 | ln -sv /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so{,.1} ${CLFS}/usr/lib
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| 21 | ln -sv /tools/lib/libstdc++.so{.6,} ${CLFS}/usr/lib
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| 22 | sed -e 's/tools/usr/' /tools/lib/libstdc++.la > ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libstdc++.la
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| 23 | ln -sv bash ${CLFS}/bin/sh
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| 24 | ln -sv /run ${CLFS}/var/run</userinput></screen>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para os="c">Historically, Linux maintains a list of the mounted file systems
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| 27 | in the file <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>. Modern kernels maintain this list
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| 28 | internally and expose it to the user via the
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| 29 | <filename class="directory">/proc</filename> filesystem. To satisfy utilities
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| 30 | that expect the presence of <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>, create the
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| 31 | following symbolic link:</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <screen os="d"><userinput>ln -sv /proc/self/mounts ${CLFS}/etc/mtab</userinput></screen>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | </sect1>
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