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authorPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-09 13:35:39 +0000
committerPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-09 13:35:39 +0000
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%general-entities;
]>
-<sect1 id="ch-tools-introduction">
+<sect1 id="ch-tools-introduction-cross">
<?dbhtml filename="introduction.html"?>
<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 cross-compile basic utilities using
+ the just built cross-toolchain. Those utilities are installed into
+ their final location, but cannot be used yet. Basic tasks still rely on
+ the hosts tools. Nevertheless, the installed libraries are used when
+ linking.</para>
+
+ <para>Using the utilities will be possible in next chapter after entering
+ the <quote>chroot</quote> environment. But all the packages built in the
+ present chapter need themselves to be built. So we cannot be independent
+ on the build system yet.</para>
+
+ <para>Once again, let us recall that improper setting of <envar>LFS</envar>
+ together with building as root, may render your computer unusable.
+ This whole chapter must be done as user <systemitem
+ class="username">lfs</systemitem>, with the enviroment as described in
+ <xref linkend="ch-preps-settingenviron"/>.</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>