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+<sect2>
+<title>Command explanations</title>
+
+<para>
+<userinput>yes "" | make config:</userinput> This runs make config and
+answers "Y" to every question the config script asks the user. We're not
+configuring the real kernel here, we just need to have some sort of
+configure file created so that we can run make dep next that will create
+a few files in $LFS/usr/src/linux/include/linux like version.h among
+others that we will need to compilg Glibc and other packages later in
+chroot.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<userinput>make dep:</userinput> make dep checks dependencies and sets
+up the dependencies file. We don't really care about the dependency
+checks, but what we do care about is that make dep creates those
+aforementioned files in $LFS/usr/src/linux/include/linux we will be
+needing later on.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<userinput>ln -s ../src/linux/include/linux linux</userinput> and
+<userinput>ln -s ../src/linux/include/asm asm:</userinput> These
+commands create the linux and asm symlinks in the $LFS/usr/include
+directory that point to the proper directories in the Linux source tree.
+Packages that need kernel headers include them with lines like #include
+&lt;linux/errno.h&gt;. These paths are relative to the /usr/include
+directory so the /usr/include/linux link points to the directory
+containing the Linux kernel header files. The same goes for the asm
+symlink.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+