Write new section detailing toolchain technical notes

[greg@…]

As per JR's mail to lfs-dev. Some of the more educational bits of the plfs hint still need integration into the book text. I was thinking of a new section in Chapter 5 just after the "Why we use static linking" section entitled "Toolchain techical notes" or sumthin like that, where we talk about how the linker and gcc specs file tie into the Ch 5 build strategy.

[gerard@…]

Sounds like a great plan to me. Especially now that you made that change to the way we deal with linker scripts (or I should say not deal with them) it would be good to re-educate the lot of us. I imagine many of us who didn't read the threads carefully don't understand anymore what is going on.

[greg@…]

Actually, on reflection, I feel that after this section is written, the whole section on "Why we use static linking" could probably go. We are making far too big a deal of static linking when, nowadays, it is only a tiny part of the overall build process. i.e. I'll include some notes about static linking in the new section, but nowhere near as much detail as we currently provide.

I'll start on the new section soon. Would like to get it in before 5.0 release but not necessarily before the next pre.

[greg@…]

Section has now been written, reviewed, improved and committed.