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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-06-06 17:53:34 +0000
committerMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-06-06 17:53:34 +0000
commitc18d2610f1dcc4f9800f45bd9aa30080487c6313 (patch)
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parent053ce5684fb35c6bdedd02f3d27606d58e3504fd (diff)
fix up chapter 5 explanations
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
This is the equivalent to make LDFLAGS=-static as we use with other
packages to compile them statically.</para>
-<para><userinput>--prefix=/usr:</userinput> This is NOT a typo. GCC hard
+<para><userinput>--prefix=/static:</userinput> This is NOT a typo. GCC hard
codes some paths while compiling and so we need to pass /usr as the
prefix during ./configure. We pass the real install prefix during the
make install command later.</para>
@@ -18,13 +18,8 @@ the --enable-languages parameter can be omitted.</para>
<para><userinput>--enable-threads=posix:</userinput> This enables C++
exception handling for multithreaded code.</para>
-<para><userinput>ln -sf ../usr/bin/cpp:</userinput> This
-creates the $LFS/lib/cpp symlink. Some packages explicitly try to find
-cpp in /lib.</para>
-
-<para><userinput>ln -sf ../bin/cpp:</userinput> This
-creates the $LFS/usr/lib/cpp symlink as there are packages that expect
-cpp to be in /usr/lib.</para>
+<para><userinput>ln -s gcc $LFS/static/bin/cc:</userinput> This
+creates the $LFS/static/bin/gcc symlink which some packages need.</para>
</sect2>