Changeset 675606b for chapter05/introduction.xml

Timestamp:

06/16/2020 11:56:28 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

9a05e45

Parents:

560065f (diff), 1cd5961 (diff)
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Message:

Split Chapter 5 into three separate chapters.
Implement a new method of cross-building the LFS tool chain
and other tools to simplify the method of isolating the
new system from the original host. This will be the start of
LFS-10.0.

Move old trunk/BOOK to branches/old-trunk.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11946 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• 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, and are detailed in the next
+  section.</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>