On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:54:18PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > (6). While still in $LFS/sources/gcc-build, I ran ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp > /lib; And this is where I found it confusing, ../usr/bin/cpp == > $LFS/sources/usr/bin/cpp; but /usr/bin/cpp isn't found in $LFS/sources. > It's found is $LFS/usr/bin/cpp; I thought that ln was supposed to create > a link to an existing file whether using an absolute or a relative path; > > I hope I'm making sense here. > The 'ln' command has many different ways of being invoked (see 'man ln'). In this case, ../usr/bin/ is relative to /lib/ so we create /lib/cpp as a symlink to /usr/bin/cpp. Similarly, the next instruction creates a symlink to /usr/bin/gcc called /usr/bin/cc.
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