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<sect1 id="ch-tools-creatingtoolsdir">
<?dbhtml filename="creatingtoolsdir.html"?>
<title>Creating the $LFS/tools Directory</title>
<para>All programs compiled in <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/>
will be installed under <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename>
to keep them separate from the programs compiled in <xref
linkend="chapter-building-system"/>. The programs compiled here are
temporary tools and will not be a part of the final LFS system. By keeping
these programs in a separate directory, they can easily be discarded later
after their use. This also prevents these programs from ending up in the
host production directories (easy to do by accident in <xref
linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/>).</para>
<para>Create the required directory by running the following as
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
<screen><userinput>mkdir -v $LFS/tools</userinput></screen>
<para>The next step is to create a <filename class="symlink">/tools</filename>
symlink on the host system. This will point to the newly-created directory on
the LFS partition. Run this command as <systemitem
class="username">root</systemitem> as well:</para>
<screen><userinput>ln -sv $LFS/tools /</userinput></screen>
<note>
<para>The above command is correct. The <command>ln</command> command
has a few syntactic variations, so be sure to check
<command>info coreutils ln</command> and <filename>ln(1)</filename>
before reporting what you may think is an error.</para>
</note>
<para>The created symlink enables the toolchain to be compiled so that it
always refers to <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>, meaning
that the compiler, assembler, and linker will work both in Chapter 5
(when we are still using some tools from the host) and in the next (when
we are <quote>chrooted</quote> to the LFS partition).</para>
</sect1>
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