From d7a942197e713339d4dc1eedab4dafd4179a5cd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Douglas R. Reno" <renodr@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 23:24:11 -0500
Subject: Merge Xi's changes into trunk Update to meson-0.58.0 Update to
 systemd-248 Update to gcc-11.1.0 Update to linux-5.12.1 Update to
 iproute2-5.12.0 Update to Python-3.9.5 Make /bin, /sbin, and /lib symlinks to
 their counterparts in /usr. Thanks again for a significant portion of this
 work goes to Xi, I only really merged it and made a couple of modifications
 for my updates. To LFS 11.x we go!

---
 chapter04/creatingminlayout.xml | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'chapter04/creatingminlayout.xml')

diff --git a/chapter04/creatingminlayout.xml b/chapter04/creatingminlayout.xml
index 749ce84fa..50c431324 100644
--- a/chapter04/creatingminlayout.xml
+++ b/chapter04/creatingminlayout.xml
@@ -20,11 +20,25 @@
   <para>Create the required directory layout by running the following as
   <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>mkdir -pv $LFS/{bin,etc,lib,sbin,usr,var}
+<screen><userinput>mkdir -pv $LFS/{etc,var} $LFS/usr/{bin,lib,sbin}
+
+for i in bin lib sbin; do
+  ln -sv usr/$i $LFS/$i
+done
+
 case $(uname -m) in
   x86_64) mkdir -pv $LFS/lib64 ;;
 esac</userinput></screen>
 
+    <note>
+      <para>
+        The above command is correct.  The <command>ln</command> command has
+        a few syntactic versions, so be sure to check
+		<command>info coreutils ln</command> and <filename>ln(1)</filename>
+		before reporting what you may think is an error.
+	  </para>
+    </note>
+
   <para>Programs in <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> will be compiled
   with a cross-compiler (more details in section <xref
   linkend="ch-tools-toolchaintechnotes"/>). In order to separate this
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