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| 8 | <sect1 id="pre-foreword">
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| 11 | <title>Foreword</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>The Linux From Scratch Project has seen many changes in the
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| 14 | few years of its existence. I personally became involved with the
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| 15 | project in 1999, around the time of the 2.x releases. At that time,
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| 16 | the build process was to create static binaries with the host system,
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| 17 | then chroot and build the final binaries on top of the static ones.</para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>Later came the use of the /static directory to hold the initial
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| 20 | static builds, keeping them separated from the final system, then
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| 21 | the PureLFS process developed by Ryan Oliver and Greg Schafer,
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| 22 | introducing a new toolchain build process that divorces even our initial
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| 23 | builds from the host. Finally, LFS 6 bought Linux Kernel 2.6, the
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| 24 | udev dynamic device structure, sanitized kernel headers, and other
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| 25 | improvements to the Linux From Scratch system.</para>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <para>The one "flaw" in LFS is that it has always been based on an x86
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| 28 | class processor. With the advent of the Athlon 64 and Intel EM64T
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| 29 | processors, the x86-only LFS is no longer ideal. Throughout this time,
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| 30 | Ryan Oliver developed and documented a process by which you could
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| 31 | build Linux for any system and from any system, by use of
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| 32 | cross-compilation techniques. Thus, the Cross LFS project was born.</para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para>CLFS follows the same guiding principles the LFS project has
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| 35 | always followed, e.g., knowing your system inside and out by virtue
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| 36 | of having built the system yourself. Additionally, during a CLFS
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| 37 | build, you will learn advanced techniques such as cross-build toolchains,
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| 38 | multilib support (32 & 64-bit libraries side-by-side), alternative
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| 39 | architectures such as Sparc, MIPS, and Alpha, and much more.</para>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <para>We hope you enjoy building your own CLFS system, and the benefits
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| 42 | that come from a system tailored to your needs.</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <literallayout>--
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| 45 | Jeremy Utley, CLFS 1.x Release Manager (Page Author)
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| 46 | Jim Gifford, CLFS Project Co-leader
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| 47 | Ryan Oliver, CLFS Project Co-leader
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| 48 | Joe Ciccone, Justin Knierim, Chris Staub, Matt Darcy, Ken Moffat,
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| 49 | Manuel Canales Esparcia, and Nathan Coulson - CLFS Developers</literallayout>
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| 51 | </sect1>
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