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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2021-09-17 21:43:15 -0500
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2021-09-17 21:43:15 -0500
commit7e62bbc5065ed196872a223c6558b89d4f9bce6d (patch)
tree25d13e2b3eb97aee43981f1f62da7ea2fa247c9b /part3intro
parent43b6ecdc1fd6df576cba795798d35dc72fd6d557 (diff)
Tweak toolchain technical notes wording
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@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@
<title>About Cross-Compilation</title>
<para>Cross-compilation involves some concepts that deserve a section on
- their own. Although this section may be omitted in a first reading, it
- is strongly suggested to come back to it later in order to get a full
- grasp of the build process.</para>
+ their own. Although this section may be omitted in a first reading,
+ coming back to it later will be beneficial to your full understanding of
+ the process.</para>
<para>Let us first define some terms used in this context:</para>
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
<para>As an example, let us imagine the following scenario (sometimes
referred to as <quote>Canadian Cross</quote>): we may have a
- compiler on a slow machine only, let's call the machine A, and the compiler
+ compiler on a slow machine only, let's call it machine A, and the compiler
ccA. We may have also a fast machine (B), but with no compiler, and we may
want to produce code for another slow machine (C). To build a
compiler for machine C, we would have three stages:</para>
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
cpu-vendor-kernel-os referred to as the machine triplet. An astute
reader may wonder why a <quote>triplet</quote> refers to a four component
name. The reason is history: initially, three component names were enough
- to designate unambiguously a machine, but with new machines and systems
+ to designate a machine unambiguously, but with new machines and systems
appearing, that proved insufficient. The word <quote>triplet</quote>
remained. A simple way to determine your machine triplet is to run
the <command>config.guess</command>
@@ -156,9 +156,9 @@
linker <command>ld</command> that is part of binutils). The dynamic linker
provided by Glibc finds and loads the shared libraries needed by a
program, prepares the program to run, and then runs it. The name of the
- dynamic linker for a 32-bit Intel machine will be <filename
- class="libraryfile">ld-linux.so.2</filename> (<filename
- class="libraryfile">ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</filename> for 64-bit systems). A
+ dynamic linker for a 32-bit Intel machine is <filename
+ class="libraryfile">ld-linux.so.2</filename> and is<filename
+ class="libraryfile">ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</filename> for 64-bit systems. A
sure-fire way to determine the name of the dynamic linker is to inspect a
random binary from the host system by running: <userinput>readelf -l
&lt;name of binary&gt; | grep interpreter</userinput> and noting the
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
tree.</para>
</note>
- <para>In order to fake a cross compilation, the name of the host triplet
+ <para>In order to fake a cross compilation in LFS, the name of the host triplet
is slightly adjusted by changing the &quot;vendor&quot; field in the
<envar>LFS_TGT</envar> variable. We also use the
<parameter>--with-sysroot</parameter> option when building the cross linker and
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ checking what linker to use... /mnt/lfs/tools/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ld</compute
always use the compiler relating to the <parameter>--host</parameter>
parameter passed to its configure script; e.g. in our case, the compiler
will be <command>$LFS_TGT-gcc</command>. The binary tools and kernel
- headers can be a bit more complicated. Therefore, take no risks and use
+ headers can be a bit more complicated. Therefore, we take no risks and use
the available configure switches to enforce the correct selections. After
the run of <command>configure</command>, check the contents of the
<filename>config.make</filename> file in the <filename