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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-preps-creatingtoolsdir">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingtoolsdir.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Creating the $LFS/tools Directory</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>All programs compiled in <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/>
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| 14 | will be installed under <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename>
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| 15 | to keep them separate from the programs compiled in <xref
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| 16 | linkend="chapter-building-system"/>. The programs compiled here are
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| 17 | temporary tools and will not be a part of the final LFS system. By keeping
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| 18 | these programs in a separate directory, they can easily be discarded later
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| 19 | after their use. This also prevents these programs from ending up in the
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| 20 | host production directories (easy to do by accident in <xref
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| 21 | linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/>).</para>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <para>Create the required directory by running the following as
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| 24 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <screen><userinput>mkdir -v $LFS/tools</userinput></screen>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <para>The next step is to create a <filename class="symlink">/tools</filename>
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| 29 | symlink on the host system. This will point to the newly-created directory on
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| 30 | the LFS partition. Run this command as <systemitem
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| 31 | class="username">root</systemitem> as well:</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <screen><userinput>ln -sv $LFS/tools /</userinput></screen>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <note>
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| 36 | <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
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| 38 | <command>info coreutils ln</command> and <filename>ln(1)</filename>
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| 39 | before reporting what you may think is an error.</para>
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| 40 | </note>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <para>The created symlink enables the toolchain to be compiled so that it
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| 43 | always refers to <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>, meaning
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| 44 | that the compiler, assembler, and linker will work both in Chapter 5
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| 45 | (when we are still using some tools from the host) and in the next (when
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| 46 | we are <quote>chrooted</quote> to the LFS partition).</para>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | </sect1>
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