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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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| 6 | <sect1 id="ch-tools-creatingtoolsdir">
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| 7 | <title>Creating the $LFS/tools Directory</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingtoolsdir.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <para>All programs compiled in <xref
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| 11 | linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> will be installed under <filename
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| 12 | class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> to keep them separate from the
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| 13 | programs compiled in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>. The
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| 14 | programs compiled here are temporary tools and will not be a part of
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| 15 | the final LFS system. By keeping these programs in a separate
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| 16 | directory, they can easily be discarded later after their use. This
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| 17 | also prevents these programs from ending up in the host production
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| 18 | directories (easy to do by accident in <xref
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| 19 | linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/>), which could be a very bad
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| 20 | thing.</para>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <para>Create the required directory by running the following as
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| 23 | <emphasis>root</emphasis>:</para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <screen><userinput>mkdir $LFS/tools</userinput></screen>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <para>The next step is to create a <filename>/tools</filename> symlink
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| 28 | on the host system. This will point to the newly-created directory on
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| 29 | the LFS partition. Run this command as <emphasis>root</emphasis> as
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| 30 | well:</para>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <screen><userinput>ln -s $LFS/tools /</userinput></screen>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <note><para>The above command is correct. The <command>ln</command>
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| 35 | command has a few syntactic variations, so be sure to check the info
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| 36 | and man pages before reporting what you may think is an
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| 37 | error.</para></note>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para>The created symlink enables the toolchain to be compiled so that
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| 40 | it always refers to <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>,
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| 41 | meaning that the compiler, assembler, and linker will work both in
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| 42 | this chapter (when we are still using some tools from the host) and in
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| 43 | the next (when we are <quote>chrooted</quote> to the LFS
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| 44 | partition).</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | </sect1>
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| 47 |
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