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+This is a beta testing build script. Look through the script before using it.
+This script is updated along with the GIT version of the book.
+
+I got bored building everything manually and wanted to have an automated
+process to create build scripts using commands dumped from the book.
+
+A user can download the book and select targets to dump commands like this:
+
+git clone git://git.cross-lfs.org/cross-lfs.git
+cd cross-lfs/BOOK
+
+For x86 commands do: make RENDERDIR=/mnt/clfs/sources ARCHS=x86 dump-commands
+
+   or use RENDERDIR=$CLFS/sources (make sure CLFS variable is set.)
+
+make help   will show other targets.
+
+The xml of the CLFS book isn't perfect and some commands may not be extracted
+properly. It is recommended that the dumped commands for cross-tools,
+temp-system, and final-system be reviewed before continuing.
+
+Set the variables at the top of the create-commands script.
+The variables are set assuming /mnt/clfs/sources is the home directory of
+the dumped commands, the created scripts, and where the build will take place.
+
+The case1 and case2 scripts are what I used to quickly create the case
+constructs in the main script and is incomplete.
+
+The build scripts require, for now, that all packages be compressed with xz.
+If your sources will have different extensions, you can edit the createfiles
+script and edit them manually.
+
+Compress all the source with xz using the following command:
+
+gunzip *.gz *.tgz && bunzip2 *.bz2 && xz -vv *.tar
+(Use compression options at your descretion such as -e or -9)
+
+Run the create-commands.sh script as the clfs user as created in Chapter 4.
+Otherwise, the script will expand the wrong $HOME variable to the scripts.
+The reason is that the script should be ran after the clfs user is added
+and the environment is created prioer to chapter 5.
+
+The TESTS variable can be set to remove the check commands so that tests are not ran.
+Set the TESTS variable accordingly.
+
+It is a good idea to view the scripts manually before execution to make sure all
+looks well and nothing is missing or ovbious.
+
+Contact Berzerkula at Freenode IRC #Cross-LFS or email kb0iic at gmail dot com.