r8518 - in trunk/BOOK: . chapter01 prologue
Bruce Dubbs
bruce.dubbs at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 14:23:20 MDT 2008
Sukucorp Sukucorp wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:48 PM, <bdubbs at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
>> + <para>[bdubbs] - Updated host requirments to check for
>> + symbolic links from sh, awk, and yacc.</para>
>
> Was there a bug report for this or did anyone run into any problems?
>
> I don't know about bison/yacc, but I did not have any issues starting
> from a host where sh was linked to dash and awk was linked to mawk. My
> host was Ubuntu where gawk is not installed. I bypassed updating the
> host by installing gawk before building pass1 binutils.
I was responding to some earlier comments about sh->dash causing problmes. I
added the part about yacc and awk because I know thy are sometimes used, but I
don't know for sure if they are essential for LFS. It is just making sure. I
started to add lex, but I didn't see flex required.
-- Bruce
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