On 22/11/2015 04:06, Chris Staub wrote: > On 11/21/2015 06:15 PM, Felix wrote: >> 2.4. Setting The $LFS Variable >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.8-systemd/chapter02/aboutlfs >> .html >> >> Hi, >> after many years of knowing about LFS I finally decided to give it a >> try!. >> As you can see I am only just begun :-) >> >> My host system is Ubuntu Gnome 15.10. >> I believe that Ubuntu uses dash as default shell, however based upon >> the recommendation in the book I installed bash. >> I then deleted the link /bin/sh to dash and recreated it to /bin/bash. >> >> Then as section 2.4 I created the files .bash_profile for my user and >> for root with the line: >>> export LFS=/mnt/lfs >> >> However, testing this with echo $LFS in all sorts of ways, including >> rebooting, sudo su - , sudo echo $LFS , etc. showed that the >> .bash_profile was not being respected. >> >> I searched the mailing list archives and found the following post: >> http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2013-February/ >> 072064.html >> >> which gave me the answer to my problem. >> >> I would like to respectfully suggest that this information could be >> mentioned in Section 2.4 of the book. >> >> Thank you. >> > There is no need for that, it won't happen for the lfs user if you're > following the book. And, if you're referring to that being set for root, > there's no real need to put that in .bashrc or .bash_profile since they're > only used a few times. Plus, we don't know what shell you might be using for > root, so we can't be sure you're even using bash.
Well, I respectfully disagree: the book tells explicitely in a note (page 2.4. Setting the $LFS variable) that "One way to ensure that the LFS variable is always set is to edit the .bash_profile file in both your personal home directory and in /root/.bash_profile and enter the export command above." So I think Felix's request is legitimate. Something like "if your shell is called /bin/sh, use .profile instead of .bash_profile" could be added to the note. Regards, Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
