source: final-preps/creatingtoolsdir.xml@ 89fc4cc

Last change on this file since 89fc4cc was 9cb6b64, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r4209@server: jim | 2006-07-01 12:46:18 -0700
Updated variables -

LFS_TARGET is now CLFS_TARGET
LFS_HOST is now CLFS_HOST
LFS_TARGET32 is now CLFS_TARGET32
LFS is now CLFS
/mnt/lfs is now /mnt/clfs


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[bf8c11f]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-final-preps-creatingtoolsdir">
9 <?dbhtml filename="creatingtoolsdir.html"?>
10
[9cb6b64]11 <title>Creating the $CLFS/tools Directory</title>
[bf8c11f]12
[5be6331]13 <para>All programs compiled in <xref linkend="chapter-temp-system"/>
[9cb6b64]14 will be installed under <filename class="directory">$CLFS/tools</filename>
[bf8c11f]15 to keep them separate from the programs compiled in <xref
16 linkend="chapter-building-system"/>. The programs compiled here are
[8ca6da6]17 temporary tools and will not be a part of the final CLFS system. By keeping
[bf8c11f]18 these programs in a separate directory, they can easily be discarded later
19 after their use. This also prevents these programs from ending up in the
20 host production directories (easy to do by accident in <xref
[5be6331]21 linkend="chapter-temp-system"/>).</para>
[bf8c11f]22
23 <para>Create the required directory by running the following as
24 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
25
[9cb6b64]26<screen><userinput>install -dv $CLFS/tools</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]27
28 <para>The next step is to create a <filename class="symlink">/tools</filename>
29 symlink on the host system. This will point to the newly-created directory
[b71fa50]30 on the CLFS partition. Run this command as <systemitem
[bf8c11f]31 class="username">root</systemitem> as well:</para>
32
[9cb6b64]33<screen><userinput>ln -sv $CLFS/tools /</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]34
35 <note>
36 <para>The above command is correct. The <command>ln</command> command
37 has a few syntactic variations, so be sure to check <command>info
38 coreutils ln</command> and <filename>ln(1)</filename> before reporting
39 what you may think is an error.</para>
40 </note>
41
[9531391]42 <para>The created symlink enables the toolchain to be compiled so that
[bf8c11f]43 it always refers to <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>,
[9531391]44 meaning that the compiler, assembler, and linker will work. This will
45 provide a common place for our temporary tools system.</para>
[bf8c11f]46
47</sect1>
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