r8518 - in trunk/BOOK: . chapter01 prologue

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:49 PM, J. Greenlees
<lists at jaqui-greenlees.net> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
>  > 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. ]

Sure it is. You switch to the lfs user with `su - lfs'. That creates a
login shell using the shell listed in the passwd database. If
PCLinuxOS' su doesn't follow that trend, I don't know if there's a lot
we can do about that.

--
Dan