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<title>Command explanations</title>
<para>
+<userinput>mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3:</userinput> Glibc needs a
+null device to compile properly. All other devices will be created in the
+next section.
+</para>
+
+<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 isn't present Glibc will abort with an error that it