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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-01-03 02:51:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-01-03 02:51:46 +0000 |
| commit | 4d515293b6c5b19038ccde51c85eb9b535315c7e (patch) | |
| tree | aa9b9894e59e7598af3dfcf6144cdf4e7915a416 /chapter05/creatingstaticdir.xml | |
| parent | 3cf0fef1dea547a9c5fa1b8855f525263147613d (diff) | |
Applied Alex' patch to rewrite the why-static section, plus some changes of my own
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2273 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter05/creatingstaticdir.xml b/chapter05/creatingstaticdir.xml index 9e83b9952..f0b34a542 100644 --- a/chapter05/creatingstaticdir.xml +++ b/chapter05/creatingstaticdir.xml @@ -2,19 +2,14 @@ <title>Creating the $LFS/static directory</title> <?dbhtml filename="creatingstaticdir.html" dir="chapter05"?> -<para>As explained in this chapter's introduction, everything we install -from this chapter will be installed under the <filename -class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> directory. This way it won't -pollute the LFS partition with a bunch of temporary files. All we need to -do is create this directory so we can start installing. Simply run this -command to create the directory:</para> +<para>All programs compiled in this chapter will be installed under <filename +class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> to keep them separate from the +programs compiled in the next chapter. The programs compiled here are only +temporary tools and won't be a part of the final LFS system and by keeping them +in a separate directory, we can later easily throw them away. Create the +required directory by running the following:</para> <para><screen><userinput>mkdir $LFS/static</userinput></screen></para> -<para>You may want to move the packages you downloaded in Chapter 3 to this -<filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> directory, perhaps -create a subdirectory <filename -class="directory">$LFS/static/src</filename> to keep them in.</para> - </sect1> |