On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, David Snyder wrote: > Ok so I completed all of part 5 and am starting to install the basic > system. Now here's the problem... when I run "make install" in > man-pages, it prompts that it can't find "/bin/sh" which is fine > because I haven't installed the sym-link. > > My question is... how can I go about running "make install" without > even creating the sym-link and actually never have a "bin" directory. > Obviously "/bin/sh" is hard-wired into make or gcc or something else... > but is there a way to compile make & gcc so that it looks for the shell > somewhere else.... say SHELL=/executables/shell > Whatever it is that you're trying to build, it isn't linux as conventionally understood - the directory structure is deeply ingrained everywhere.
Presumably, you'll need to inspect the source of each package and alter the configure scripts (paths, /bin/sh, where to look for headers if you are moving those) and Makefile fragments (many packages use Makefile.in to generate the Makefile, so you may need to understand how the autotools work). Sounds like a major piece of work, and when it breaks you get to keep both pieces. There was a project a year or two ago to create a distro with everything into different directories, I don't recall what they were called or if they are still in existence. Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
