r8518 - in trunk/BOOK: . chapter01 prologue

[J. Greenlees]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> yacc (bison) - Definitely needed since we patch the bash parse.y file
> in Ch. 5 and yacc will need to be rerun. Could add bison to Ch. 5
> before bash, but IMO it's easier for the host to just install bison.
>
>   
yup. definitely easier, that was how I addressed the missing yacc with
PCLinuxOS as build environment.

> bash - Not needed for actual building, but glibc's ldd and tzselect
> need either bash or ksh to work. The values will be substituted at
> configure time. I don't know what happens without them, and it's
> probably not that important in Ch. 5 if those utilities aren't there.
> However, we create the LFS user with /bin/bash as the login shell, and
> this can't be substituted as is because we set up the environment
> through the bash initialization files.
>   

Yet another minor issue with PCLinuxOS as a build environment, the
environment set up following the book is not a login shell.
[ only mentioning it as a f.w.i.w. ]

Jaqui