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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 6 | <sect1 id="ch-tools-creatingtoolsdir">
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| 7 | <title>Creating the $LFS/tools directory</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingtoolsdir.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <para>All programs compiled in <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> will be installed under <filename
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| 11 | class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> to keep them separate from the
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| 12 | programs compiled in <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/>. The programs compiled here are only
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| 13 | temporary tools and won't be a part of the final LFS system and by keeping them
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| 14 | in a separate directory, we can later easily throw them away. This also
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| 15 | helps prevent them from ending up in your host's production directories
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| 16 | (easy to do in <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/>, which could be a very bad thing.</para>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <para>Later on you might wish to search through the binaries of your system to
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| 19 | see what files they make use of or link against. To make this searching easier
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| 20 | you may want to choose a unique name for the directory in which the temporary
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| 21 | tools are stored. Instead of the simple <quote>tools</quote> you could use
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| 22 | something like <quote>tools-for-lfs</quote>. However, you'll need to be careful
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| 23 | to adjust all references to <quote>tools</quote> throughout the book --
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| 24 | including those in any patches, notably the GCC Specs Patch.</para>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>Create the required directory by running the following:</para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <screen><userinput>mkdir $LFS/tools</userinput></screen>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>The next step is to create a <filename>/tools</filename> symlink on
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| 31 | your <emphasis>host</emphasis> system. It will point to the directory we just created on the LFS
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| 32 | partition:</para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <screen><userinput>ln -s $LFS/tools /</userinput></screen>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <note><para>The above command is correct. The <command>ln</command> command
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| 37 | has a few syntactic variations, so be sure to check the info page before
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| 38 | reporting what you may think is an error.</para></note>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>The created symlink enables us to compile our toolchain so that it always
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| 41 | refers to <filename>/tools</filename>, meaning that the compiler, assembler
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| 42 | and linker will work both in this chapter (when we are still using some tools
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| 43 | from the host) <emphasis>and</emphasis> in the next (when we are <quote>chrooted</quote> to
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| 44 | the LFS partition).</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | </sect1>
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