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<sect1 id="ch06-createfiles">
<title>Creating essential symlinks</title>
<?dbhtml filename="createfiles.html" dir="chapter06"?>

<para>Some programs hard-wire paths to programs which don't exist yet. In
order to satisfy these programs, we create a number of symbolic links which
will be replaced by real files throughout the course of this chapter when
we're installing all the software.</para>

<screen><userinput>ln -s /tools/bin/{bash,cat,pwd,stty} /bin
ln -s /tools/bin/perl /usr/bin
ln -s /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib
ln -s bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen>

</sect1>