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4 <title>Creating essential symlinks</title>
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7 <para>Some programs hard-wire paths to programs which don't exist yet. In
8 order to satisfy these programs, we create a number of symbolic links which
9 will be replaced by real files throughout the course of this chapter when
10 we're installing all the software.</para>
12 <screen><userinput>ln -s /tools/bin/{bash,cat,pwd,stty} /bin
13 ln -s /tools/bin/perl /usr/bin
14 ln -s /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib
15 ln -s bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen>