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diff --git a/chapter05/introduction.xml b/chapter05/introduction.xml index 33a566877..28b496993 100644 --- a/chapter05/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter05/introduction.xml @@ -10,20 +10,15 @@ <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 build a cross-compiler and its associated + tools. Although here cross-compilation is faked, the principles are + the same as for a real cross-toolchain, and are detailed in the next + section.</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 + <para>The programs compiled in this chapter will be installed under the <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</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> + separate from the files installed in the following chapters. The libraries, + on the other hand, are installed into their final place, since they pertain + to the system we want to build.</para> </sect1> |