%general-entities; ]> This chapter shows how to cross-compile basic utilities using the just built cross-toolchain. Those utilities are installed into their final location, but cannot be used yet. Basic tasks still rely on the hosts tools. Nevertheless, the installed libraries are used when linking. Using the utilities will be possible in next chapter after entering the chroot environment. But all the packages built in the present chapter need themselves to be built. So we cannot be independent on the build system yet. Once again, let us recall that improper setting of LFS together with building as root, may render your computer unusable. This whole chapter must be done as user lfs, with the enviroment as described in .