Changeset 37e35d2 for chapter05/introduction.xml

Timestamp:

06/29/2020 07:55:01 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib-10.1

Children:

c4804e8

Parents:

d4fdde6

Message:

Update to new lfs structure

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/multilib@11986 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter05/introduction.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter05/introduction.xml

@@ -11 +11 @@
   <title>Introduction</title>
 
-  <para>This chapter shows how to build a minimal Linux system.
-  This system will contain just enough tools to start constructing the final
-  LFS system in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/> and allow a working
-  environment with more user convenience than a minimum environment would.</para>
+  <para>This chapter shows how to build a cross-compiler and its associated
+  tools. Although here cross-compilation is faked, the principles are
+  the same as for a real cross-toolchain.</para>
 
-  <para>There are two steps in building this minimal system. The first step
-  is to build a new and host-independent toolchain (compiler, assembler,
-  linker, libraries, and a few useful utilities).  The second step uses this
-  toolchain to build the other essential tools.</para>
-
-  <para>The files compiled in this chapter will be installed under the
+  <para>The programs compiled in this chapter will be installed under the
   <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory to keep them
-  separate from the files installed in the next chapter and the host
-  production directories. Since the packages compiled here are temporary,
-  we do not want them to pollute the soon-to-be LFS system.</para>
+  separate from the files installed in the following chapters. The libraries,
+  on the other hand, are installed into their final place, since they pertain
+  to the system we want to build.</para>
 
 </sect1>