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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-05-26 23:18:24 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-05-26 23:18:24 +0000
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<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>
+<para><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf:</userinput> One of the final steps
+of the Glibc installation is running ldconfig to update the dynamic loader
+cache. If this file doesn't exist, the installation will abort with an error
+that it can't read the file, so we simply create an empty file (the empty
+file will have Glibc default to using /lib and /usr/lib which is fine).</para>
+
<para><userinput>sed 's%\$(PERL)%/usr/bin/perl%'
malloc/Makefile.backup &gt; malloc/Makefile:</userinput> This sed command
searches through <filename>malloc/Makefile.backup</filename> and