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  1. <sect1 id="ch06-createfiles">
  2. <title>Creating essential symlinks</title>
  3. <?dbhtml filename="createfiles.html" dir="chapter06"?>
  4. <para>Some programs hard-wire paths to programs which don't exist yet. In
  5. order to satisfy these programs, we create a number of symbolic links which
  6. will be replaced by real files throughout the course of this chapter when
  7. we're installing all the software.</para>
  8. <para><screen><userinput>ln -s /tools/bin/{bash,pwd,cat,stty} /bin
  9. ln -s /tools/bin/perl /usr/bin
  10. ln -s /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib
  11. ln -s bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen></para>
  12. </sect1>