id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
2679	PATH lameness in building LFS	kurt klingbeil	lfs-book@…	"I was following the bouncing ball in building an LFS system
from a LFS-CD host system.
In binutils2.20 when I went to run configure as user lfs,
It bailed with a message about
C compiler can't create executable
which was related to can't find 'ld'

There was no problem when running as root.
from the shell I could type ld, and ld was found.

Problem turns out to be two-fold:
 the PATH variable had in it /usr/gnu/bin, 
which is a non-existent folder.
While bash has no problem, gcc, and/or make seem to
have a cow with that non-existent folder and use that as a lame
excuse to bail with an error rather than continuing the
search for ld through the path"	task	closed	normal	6.7	Book	SVN	normal	invalid