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@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ the <quote>I have no name!</quote> prompt.</para>
<screen><userinput>exec /tools/bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
+<para>Note the use of the <userinput>+h</userinput> directive. This tells
+<userinput>bash</userinput> not to use its internal path hashing. Without this
+directive, <userinput>bash</userinput> would remember the paths to binaries it
+has executed. Since as we go through this chapter, we want to use our newly
+compiled binaries as soon as they are installed, we turn off this function.</para>
</sect1>