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| author | Pierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2020-06-08 20:24:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Pierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2020-06-08 20:24:56 +0000 |
| commit | 81e0bc49dcf7f02e72ffe8bdda8061b4a82ad29a (patch) | |
| tree | 7f9ab307824cb4761fa5049511c69d297c699201 | |
| parent | 5061bc643ae1e53cd22c1cf9c86b934481108090 (diff) | |
Rewrite chapter 5 title and introduction
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diff --git a/chapter05/chapter05.xml b/chapter05/chapter05.xml index 8a05daca5..1a2393b93 100644 --- a/chapter05/chapter05.xml +++ b/chapter05/chapter05.xml @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ <?dbhtml dir="chapter05"?> <?dbhtml filename="chapter05.html"?> - <title>Cross Compiling a Toolchain</title> + <title>Compiling a Cross-Toolchain</title> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="introduction.xml"/> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="toolchaintechnotes.xml"/> diff --git a/chapter05/introduction.xml b/chapter05/introduction.xml index 5614270b2..28b496993 100644 --- a/chapter05/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter05/introduction.xml @@ -10,20 +10,15 @@ <title>Introduction</title> - <para>This chapter shows how to build a minimal Linux system. - This system will contain just enough tools to start constructing the final - LFS system in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/> and allow a working - environment with more user convenience than a minimum environment would.</para> + <para>This chapter shows how to build a cross-compiler and its associated + tools. Although here cross-compilation is faked, the principles are + the same as for a real cross-toolchain, and are detailed in the next + section.</para> + + <para>The programs compiled in this chapter will be installed under the + <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory to keep them + separate from the files installed in the following chapters. The libraries, + on the other hand, are installed into their final place, since they pertain + to the system we want to build.</para> - <para>There are two steps in building this minimal system. The first step - is to build a new and host-independent toolchain (compiler, assembler, - linker, libraries, and a few useful utilities). The second step uses this - toolchain to build the other essential tools.</para> -<!-- - <para>The files compiled in this chapter will be installed under the - <filename class="directory">$LFS</filename> directory to keep them - separate from the files installed in the next chapter and the host - production directories. Since the packages compiled here are temporary, - we do not want them to pollute the soon-to-be LFS system.</para> ---> </sect1> |