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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-06-03 22:25:25 +0000
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Linux system. This system will contain just enough tools to be able
to start constructing the final LFS system in the next chapter.</para>
+<para>The building of this minimal system is done in two steps: first we
+build a brand-new and host-independent toolchain (compiler, assembler,
+linker and libraries), and then use this to build all the other essential
+tools.</para>
+
<para>The files compiled in this chapter will be installed under the
-<filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> directory,
+<filename class="directory">$LFS/stage1</filename> directory,
to keep them separate from the files installed in the next chapter.
Since the packages compiled here are merely temporary, we don't want
them to pollute the soon-to-be LFS system.</para>
<para>The key to learning what makes a Linux system work is to know
-exactly what each package is used for, and why the user or the system
-needs it. For this purpose a short description of the content of each
-package is given right after the installation instructions.</para>
+what each package is used for, why the user or the system needs it.
+For this purpose a short summary of the content of each package is given
+before the actual installation instructions. For a short description of
+each program in a package, please refer to the corresponding section in
+<xref linkend="appendixa"/>.</para>
<para>Several of the packages are patched before compilation, but only when
the patch is needed to circumvent a problem. Often the patch is needed in