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<para><screen><userinput>make -C ld INSTALL=/tools/bin/install install</userinput></screen></para>
+<note><para>If you somehow missed the earlier warning to retain the Binutils
+source and build directories from the second pass in Chapter 5 or otherwise
+accidentally deleted them or just don't have access to them, don't worry, all is
+not lost. Just ignore this step. The result will be that the next package,
+Binutils, will link against the Glibc libraries in
+<filename class="directory">/tools</filename> rather than
+<filename class="directory">/usr</filename>. This is not ideal, however, our
+testing has shown that the resulting Binutils program binaries should be
+identical.</para></note>
+
<para>From now on every compiled program will link <emphasis>only</emphasis>
against the libraries in <filename>/usr/lib</filename> and
<filename>/lib</filename>. The extra